![]() These are provided for free and allow users to drag and drop particular Bootstrap components into a page. To make things easier for people new to the idea of Bootstrap code in RapidWeaver, a selection of installable code snippets were developed. ThemeFlood was the first addon company to pioneer the use of Bootstrap in RapidWeaver themes. Twitter Bootstrap has grown quickly in recent years to become a powerful front end framework for the construction and deployment of modern, responsive websites. More on this later.RapidWeaver Bootstrap Snippets Introduction So far I’ve been very pleased with the workflow and the quality of the tools while some things in the OS X world remain decidedly odd, for the most part the transition has been pretty seamless. I’ve also tried the demo version of Stylizer, which is a very powerful CSS analyzer that actually permits realtime WYSIWYG CSS editing (I just don’t think that I’ll be doing enough CSS work at this point to justify the purchase). Scrivener: The leading writing project manager, which I’m using to plan and draft some of the major sections of the site.This application deserves a series of posts of its own. DEVONthink 2.0: Information management database, which I’m using to organize my research materials.Picasa: Google’s photo management and retouching app. ![]() Xyle Scope: A free CSS editor that is useful for template customization.Stacks: A remarkable plug-in for RapidWeaver that provides easy drag-and-drop layout functionality.RapidWeaver 5: This template-based design tool allowed me to complete the basic site redesign in under 24 hours includes built-in modules for blogging, photo albums, and other features.Since then I’ve started using a whole new series of research and productivity applications, including the tools I’m using for this site: Last September I bought a 13” MacBook Pro, and have been gradually transitioning most of my computing activities over to OS X. I’m well past the days when I want to be tinkering with HTML I almost would prefer re-entering the data by hand (which, unlike sorting through tags, is at least close to the substantive subject matter). From what I can tell, there’s a clever Stacks plug-in for tables that would be perfect…except it only handles 12×12 tables (plenty of columns, but not nearly enough rows). ![]() RapidWeaver is fantastic in a lot of ways, but as usual, ease-of-use comes with a price. That was okay as long as I was still using FrontPage, but has created a bit of a migration issue as I move to a more modern set of tools. This saved my sanity (particularly when it came to color-coding and such), but did some funny things to the code. This eventually became too much of a pain to maintain (particularly when I got around to tables like this), and so I began using Microsoft FrontPage as a way to shortcut the process. HTML tables have always been a pain, and I originally hard-coded tables like this one by hand. I’m in the process of trying to convert some rather lengthy data tables from my old site to the new format, and not having much success. Tags: admin, airpower, Desert Storm, HTML/CSS, RapidWeaver Aerial Engagements 1981 to the Present, and Steve Davies’/Doug Dildy’s F-15 Eagle Engaged - I plan to use both of them to update, validate, and expand my Coalition air-to-air victories table. Two especially useful works are Craig Brown’s Debrief: A Complete History of U.S. But Desert Storm began twenty years ago this month, and since then, more detailed accounts of the air campaign have emerged, in some cases correcting errors that appeared in the earlier sources. The original trio of air campaign tables was based on the statistical annex to the USAF’s official 1993 five-volume survey. I will probably convert the other two Desert Storm air campaign tables this week, and begin implementing some updates based on more recent sources. The results seem to be mostly acceptable. In the end, there still doesn’t seem to be anything better than a manual process: I ended up creating a “raw” HTML table in Kompozer, applying CSS styles for the various rows, and then pasting the resulting HTML/CSS code into RapidWeaver. There is an updated Stacks plug-in for RapidWeaver that permits the creation of tables with unlimited rows, but each cell is a separate Stacks object, which quickly mires down both editor and browser. Well, it turned out that there wasn’t an especially easy solution to the table problem.
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