RapidWeaver Classroom Curriculum

The Grad School Curriculum

The next level of RapidWeaver training. Code is no longer scary!


RapidWeaver Classroom's Grad School is the next step in RapidWeaver website development. Our Grad School video tutorials eliminate the intimidation associated with HTML and CSS code, giving you the confidence to tweak every detail of your website.

Grad School walks you through all the details of how a theme is structured, and shows you how to make modifications to a theme so that you can make it look the way you want. Training even goes beyond RapidWeaver and offers instruction on integrating the aMember membership system, for those who want to create membership websites.

Over 50 tutorials are available. Register to access these tutorials.

Section 101: HTML, CSS & Theme Modification



This section covers all the basics of HTML and CSS and how they are used in RapidWeaver. Once we have covered the basics, we will apply what we've learned to customize our content and modify RapidWeaver themes! Get ready to have fun!

HTML


HTML Basics
Approx. 49 minutes

What is HTML?
HTML Tools
HTML and RapidWeaver
HTML Tags
The DIV Tag
The SPAN Tag

The Plist


Editing the Plist
Approx. 22 minutes

The Theme Plist
Creating Theme Variations
Adding New Features

CSS


Lesson 1: CSS Basics
Approx. 63 minutes

What is CSS?
CSS and RapidWeaver
Anatomy of a CSS Rule
Class Selectors
ID Selectors
Descendent Selectors
Group Selectors
Margin and Padding
The Color Property
Styling Text
The Text-Decoration Property
Formatting Paragraphs

Lesson 2: Internal CSS
Approx. 13 minutes

The Custom CSS Panel
Modifying CSS Rules
Internal Methods Reviewed
Lesson 3: External CSS
Approx. 26 minutes

CSS Tools
Styles.css
The CSS Folder
IE.css and Print.css

Lesson 4: Modifying Themes
Approx. 20 minutes

Non-Destructive Editing
Using CSSEdit
How do I change ... ?

Lesson 5: Common Modifications
Approx. 128 minutes

Width (Part 1)
Width (Part 2)
Header Size
Logo
Navigation Menu
Heading Styles
Paragraph Formatting
Blog Formatting
Contact Form Formatting
Adding or Modifying Images
Closing Thoughts

Section 201: Integrating External Applications



External applications such as forums and membership systems will be covered here. Some of these will require work with HTML and mySQL databases, but as always these items will be described in detail.

aMember Membership System


This series takes you through a real membership site being developed with RapidWeaver and the aMember software.

Approx. 104 minutes

aMember Introduction
aMember Installation
Initial Setup
Payment Configuration
Configure a Cron Job
Product Setup
Creating Product Pages in RapidWeaver
Header and Footer Templates
CSS Files
RapidWeaver Project Integration
Manual Testing
Closing Thoughts

PunBB Discussion Forum


This series takes you through the installation and customization of a PunBB discussion forum with a real RapidWeaver project.

Approx. 45 minutes

Quick Installation
Manual Installation
Integration with RapidWeaver
Customizing the Forum
Forum Administration
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