FormLoom - first impressions screencast

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At last there is a great plugin addition from YabDab aptly named FormLoom.

In a nutshell this RapidWeaver plugin creates a great looking contact form with reCaptcha in a snap. This short screencast covers setting up a form.
Please note that this is the first beta release and I am looking forward to improvements and the eventual full release . There is already quite a hot thread on this plugin over at the Realmac forums.

Oh, and YabDab are discounting the beta sign-up by $2 so grab the plugin at a good price more details over at the Forum Announcement thread .

Just a reminder we are running our promo on supportcasts 12 months membership and BlueBall Designs Theme bundle in our Blog Thread too , catch it while you can.

08 Holiday Promo - beat those economic doldrums

Lets get into the Holiday Spirit and beat those economic blues.

Supportcasts have teamed up with BlueBall Design on a fantastic double whammy promotion from now till Dec 25th 2008.

First of all for this holiday period SupportCasts have lowered our 12 month subscription by $15 already a saving of 19%

But we did say this was a double whammy deal with BlueBall design and we are exclusively offering a superb BlueBall Design Theme bundle.

The Blueball Theme Bundle Vol. 1 bundle includes the following great looking themes:
• Blueball Pro Colors
• Blueball Classic Colors
• Blueball Kamino Classic
• Blueball Comments
• Blueball Showcase
• Blueball Designer Colors
The list price for all of these combined costs a total $66.00.

We have arranged for a 30% special discount price of just $46.00, a savings of $20. This Theme bundle is only available exclusively through SupportCasts.com till Dec 25th 2008

But the holiday madness does not stop there. In addition to the above special deal we also offer to all purchasers of the BlueBall Theme Bundle an additional $15 coupon off a SupportCasts.com 12 month membership. 

Combined with our promo price you can snap up a 12 month membership for the price of 6 months ($49.95), a fantastic saving of 38% on our regular price $79.95.

Existing supportcasts members can pick up this Theme bundle at the Discount price too

* Offer is valid from 23rd Nov 2008 - Dec 25th 2008 existing supportcasts members can purchase the Theme bundle without use of the BlueBall $15 coupon code. Promo and coupon codes mentioned above apply only to the 08 Holiday promo product only. All rights reserved SupportCasts.com

Promo coming soon

Feeling the credit crunch during this spell of economic crisis , we are going to launch a promo in a few days that will keep your piggy-bank happy too :)

New screencasts online for RapidWeaver & Sandvox

A busy week here at our respective geographic locations and the video tutorials keep on coming :)

Our resident RW gurus ;) have produced an additional Rapidweaver video tutorial to create unique nav bar image links. If you wanted ever wanted to know how to have custom navigation bar images, then this is for you.

On the Sandvox front, we have also wrapped up the following screencasts this week

- Contact Form Basics for Sandvox

- JW Flash Player Integration in your Sandvox pages (this is going to be spread over a couple of casts to include some more features of JW player)

We also dusted off a video that was is covered in our recent server migration, and it is a real beauty :)

- Sandvox e-commerce using e-Junkie. This gives you a real painless and slick looking e-commerce solution.

Go check these new screencast additions out in our member pages.

Last of all, if you are not yet a member of SupportCasts , what's stopping you? You still have until the end of October 2008 to sign up with our special offer pricing that is just insane :D

All the best from the SupportCasts team

Sign Up Issues resolved

A hectic night trying to iron out the sign up issues, and I think we have it solved. I have made sign up tests here on a number of plans and it is sending emails correctly .

Have a nice weekend 

Regards

 

Sign up problems - Oh no not again - Oh Yes!!!

Yes, it sounds like we are back at square one over 4 weeks ago with sign up problems, we have contacted the billing software supplier to see what is going on. 

If there is no satisfactory response and solution by Sunday evening, alternative arrangements will be made to handle the sign up  payments to supportcasts.

In the meantime the special offer deadline will be extended by another week.

Thanks in advance for your patience while we sort this out.

We are back

Well the site upgrade took a little bit longer than expected , then we had some problems with our billing database that did not behave itself on the new hardware.

All that is left are some page and plug-in updates, these will happen in the background.

You can be assured we will not be doing that exercise for quite a long while :)

Regards

Site upgrade - kicks off tonight

We are going ahead with the upgrade tonight (8th October) , we are planning to start from 11pm-midnight Eastern Time. All member and sign up pages will be turned off just beforehand so we can retrieve a clean backup.

We estimate the migration and testing work to take around 2-3 hours although you can never tell with the DNS updates.  

Thanks for your understanding and support 

Site update - coming soon

This is a quick heads up to let you know that we will be doing a major site upgrade (moving servers and databases) over the coming days. Screencasts, Pages and member pages will be affected during the upgrade and however to minimise any long outages we plan to do this in one shot (fingers crossed). 

We have not scheduled a firm date but timing will probably take place from midnight Eastern time  , we do apologise in advance to our European subscribers. The DNS propagation will take the most time in this process.

Emails will be sent out to current members with more details over the next couple of days.

Regards