Weaver Radio: Recent Episodes
Joe Workman & Greg Barchard
Joe and Greg are back! It's been almost exactly one year since our last episode. We hope that you enjoy the show.
In this episode, Joe and Greg talk all about the Stacks 4 launch, Weaver's Space Conference 2019 and general updates.
The Stacks 4 beta is almost here! Greg and Joe talk about all of the awesome new features coming to Stacks 4. You can get early access to Stack 4 now on the YourHead Patreon page...
https://www.patreon.com/yourhead/
Greg added a new member to his family! We catch up with Greg and answer some user feedback from previous shows.
In this episode, Joe and Greg talk all about delivering email reliably so that your email does not get trapped inside spam filters.
Useful resources:
What is DMARC
What is DKIM
DMARC report
In this episode, Joe and Greg respond to some customer feedback about Google and 404s vs 301 redirects. Then we turn the tables and discuss how you can use git to version control your RapidWeaver projects and even use it for an advanced publishing workflow.
This is part 2 of this series. Check out episode 26 for part 1.
In this episode, Joe and Greg analyze their own websites in Google PageSpeed. We go line by line with the results and give our feedback on what you should do with them.
In this episode, Joe and Greg analyze their own websites in Google PageSpeed. We go line by line with the results and give our feedback on what you should do with them.
In this episode, Joe and Greg catch up since it's been a while since we've had an episode (sorry). We answer some user questions about Google and https.
In this episode, Joe and Greg answer some user feedback and talk about some SEO tools for RapidWeaver. We also talk about new Formloom and Horizon add-ons that have been recently released.
- SEO Rx
- Horizon
- Formloom
- Ahrefs
- Moz
In this episode, Joe and Greg catch up on what's been going since WSC2018. Then they discuss how Apple will be supporting Dark Mode for websites. What does that mean for web designers?
In this episode, Joe and Greg are LIVE from WSC2018. We review how the conference went and what our key take aways were.
For more information about WSC2018 or purchase access to the videos go to https://rapidweaverconference.com
In this episode, Joe and Greg talk about backup solutions for your websites and your local Macs.
In this episode, Joe and Greg all of the cool things that you can do with an htaccess file.
Show Links
- 6G Firewall
- HTML5 Boilerplate htaccess file
- htaccess tester
- Weaver Tips htaccess tricks
In this episode, Joe and Greg discuss the launch of RapidWeaver 8 and their favorite new features it has. This is the best version of RapidWeaver ever!
RapidWeaver 8 - https://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/
Weaver's Space Conference 2018 - https://rapidweaverconference.com
In this episode, Joe and Greg discuss two important files for SEO: sitemap.xml and robots.txt
Show Links
Online Resources
- Weaver's Space (Coming Soon)
- RapidWeaver Conference - Sept 7-9
- Chrome 68 - Check your site to be sure it is SSL Enabled, Chrome will tell you.
- WeaverRadio Episode about HTTPS/SSL - Episode 10
- Eero Routers
- Synology
- Sitemap Helper (for Chillidog Hosting Customers) - Under Development! Will work great with Total CMS Blog pages!!
- Sitemap by Yourhead (not Sitemap+)
Apps
- Castro
- Overcast
In this episode, Joe and Greg do a status update with how things are going in 2018. How is it August already?!?! Then we field a couple of user questions.
Show Links
Online Resources
- Chillidog Email Service
- WeaverPix 4 (coming soon - link to WeaverPix 3) is going to be a stack with support for Flickr, 500px & Total CMS!! Has around 12-15 special animations effects!
- Weaver's Space (coming soon!!)
- Total CMS 2 (coming soon! - PUBLIC BETA by end of summer - link to Total CMS)
- RapidWeaver 8 coming soon!
- Thanks to Red Max and EllieWy for their reviews on iTunes!
- To learn about SubDomains, listen to PodCast #14.
- Cloudflare
In this episode, Joe and Greg talk all about how they record, edit and publish video for the web. This episode is jammed packed full of useful tips.
Show Links
Online Resources
- Weaver Tips
- Wistia
- Cloudinary
- Cloudflare Stream
Apps
- ScreenFlow
- Dropshare
- CloudApp (not Cloudly)
- Droplr
- Handbrake
- Video Compress Pro
- Compressor by Apple
- Transmit
Misc
- World Cup Brackets (Joe's site)
In this episode Joe and Greg talk about WWDC and all of the new hotness coming in iOS 12 and MacOS 10.14 Mojave.
Show Links
Online Resources
- macOS X Mojave
- iOS 12
- Safari
- Apple ARKit
- watchOS
- tvOS
Apps
- PlistEdit Pro
- 1Password
- RapidWeaver
Greg is back! In this episode, Joe and Greg discuss all of the best practices for publishing our websites. The various way that we can get our websites published. How to best organize the files on our servers. Subdomains vs folders. And lastly, the ultimate showdown of how to use folder names inside your RapidWeaver project. (Obviously Joe won that battle, right?)
Websites
- joeworkman.net
- www.weavers.space
- community.weavers.space
- emailstacks.com
- foundationstacks.com
- total-cms.com
- rapidweaverconference.com
- rapidweaverbook.com
Support
- community.weavers.space
- forums.realmacsoftware.com
- docs.joeworkman.net
- zendesk.com
Social Networks
- twitter.com/weaversspace
- facebook.com/weaversspace
- youtube.com/weaversspace
- instagram.com/weaversspace
Marketing
- community.weavers.space/calendar/global/index
- weaverradio.com
- rapidweavercommunity.com
- theadviking.com
- convertfox.com
Tools - Communication
- Zoom
- Slack
- Humhub
- Zendesk
Tools - Finance
- www.waveapps.com
- Bench
- Gusto
- PayPal
- Stripe
- Cartloom
Tools - Development/Testing
Github
Bitbucket
Bee
EmailOnAcid
* BrowserStack
Tools - Marketing
- Sendy
- Buffer
- ConvertFox
- SparkChart
- Zoom
- RelayThat
- TubeBuddy
- Matomo
- Edgar
- PostPlanner
Tools - Design
- TypeKit
- Hoeffler
- Adobe Stock
Tools - Hosting
- Digital Ocean
- DreamHost
- YouTube
- Transistor
- Amazon S3
- Wistia
- Cloudflare
Websites
- joeworkman.net
- www.weavers.space
- community.weavers.space
- emailstacks.com
- foundationstacks.com
- total-cms.com
- rapidweaverconference.com
- rapidweaverbook.com
Support
- community.weavers.space
- forums.realmacsoftware.com
- docs.joeworkman.net
- zendesk.com
Social Networks
- twitter.com/weaversspace
- facebook.com/weaversspace
- youtube.com/weaversspace
- instagram.com/weaversspace
Marketing
- community.weavers.space/calendar/global/index
- weaverradio.com
- rapidweavercommunity.com
- theadviking.com
- convertfox.com
Tools - Communication
- Zoom
- Slack
- Humhub
- Zendesk
Tools - Finance
- www.waveapps.com
- Bench
- Gusto
- PayPal
- Stripe
- Cartloom
Tools - Development/Testing
Github
Bitbucket
Bee
EmailOnAcid
* BrowserStack
Tools - Marketing
- Sendy
- Buffer
- ConvertFox
- SparkChart
- Zoom
- RelayThat
- TubeBuddy
- Matomo
- Edgar
- PostPlanner
Tools - Design
- TypeKit
- Hoeffler
- Adobe Stock
Tools - Hosting
- Digital Ocean
- DreamHost
- YouTube
- Transistor
- Amazon S3
- Wistia
- Cloudflare
Greg is on vacation so Joe flies solo and talks exclusively about his vision for Weaver's Space. This is part one of a three part series from Joe.
Show Links
- Join the Community - community.weavers.space
- Curent (not so much) Hotness joeworkman.net
- Future Hotness - www.weavers.space
This show is all about HTTPS. We cover... How do you acquire SSL certificates? How do you configure your RapidWeaver projects to use HTTPS? Why do we even need to do this?
Show Links
- Force SSL with htaccess
- Let's Encrypt
- Cloudflare
EPIC FAIL! In the show intro, Joe said that this was show #8... in fact, its show #9. He will be beaten...
In this show we reflect on the demise of Adobe Muse and what it means for the future of RapidWeaver. Greg and Joe also get into their origin stories and how they got into RapidWeaver.
Check out more of our episodes at https://www.weaverradio.com
This show continues our mini-series on images on the web. In this episode, we discuss how images can affect your SEO.
Show Links
- SEO-Rx
- Stop Words
- Real Favicon Generator
- Styling Broken Images
- Image Sitemaps
- OmniFocus
- Things
- Day One
This show continues our mini-series on images on the web. In this episode, we discuss the various ways to get images into your RapidWeaver projects.
Show Links
- Dropshare
- Transmit
- Cloudinary
This show kicks off a short mini-series on images on the web. In part 1 you will learn about the difference between all of the various image formats that are used on the web today. We also talk about some of the best places to find stock images, graphics and icons.
Show Links
Online Resources
- Font Awesome
- 365PSD
- IconFinder
- Subtle Patterns
- Hero Patterns
- Hero Icons
- Essential Image Optimization ebook
- Adobe Stock
- Placeholder.com
- PlaceIMG
- Canva
- RelayThat
Apps
- Omnigraffle for Mac
- Sketch
- Affinity Designer
- IconJar
RapidWeaver Add-ons
- Placeholder stack
- WeaverPix
- Total CMS
Misc
- Wold Cup Brackets (Joe's side project)
In today's show Joe and Greg talk about The GDPR law that will be coming into affect in May 2018. Its not as scary as many are making it out to be.
Show Links
- GDPR Compliance and WordPress Forms: Everything You Need to Know
- Startups for the Rest of Us podcast on GDPR
- GDPR in Plain English
In today's show Joe and Greg talk about their go to apps for helping them be better designers. More importantly, Joe's echo from previous episodes has been fixed!
Not mentioned explicitly because we assume all listeners already use...
- RapidWeaver
- Stacks
Image Editors
- Acorn
- Pixelmator
- Affinity Photo
- Napkin
- Art Text
- Patterno
- TurboCollage
Vector Gradphic Editors
- Affinity Designer
- Sketch
- Omnigraffle
Image & File Optimization
- Smaller
- ImageOptim
- JpegMini
- Squash
- Handbrake
- Video Compress Pro
- Photo Bulk
Image Organization
- Pixave
- IconJar
Coding
- Dash
- CodeRunner
- VS Code
- BBEdit
Local Web Servers
- MacOS Server
- MAMP
Utilities
- Arq
- xScope
- Sip Color
- Alfred
- SequelPro
- Transmit
- Magnet
- Moom
- Font Explorer
- Feeder
Check out more of our episodes at https://www.weaverradio.com
In this episode Joe and Greg talk all about email and newsletters.
- Collecting email
- Designing your email
- List Segmentation and Funnels
- Sending your email
Show links:
- Chillidog Newsletters
- Sendy
- Post Office Stacks
- Email for RapidWeaver
Check out more of our episodes at https://www.weaverradio.com
In this episode Joe and Greg talk about their plans for 2018.
https://www.weaverradio.com
In this episode Joe and Greg look back at 2017. They talk about some of the amazing things that happened and things that could have been improved.