![]() ![]() The Opening Hours Stack weighs in at about 45kb bandwidth usage when using multiple instances on a page, a little less when only one instance is added to a page and this is because the same code is used for the different instances (except for per stack settings that you define in each stack). This provides compete customizability on what is displayed when the company at the specified location is open or closed globally.Ī very nice feature Doobox has built in is a Compact and Tidy stack selection which reduces the stacks viewable footprint on a stacks page in Edit mode to a more manageable level, although you can easily compress it down even farther by using the Hide stack feature. You can even put the Opening Hours Stack inside another stack such as a model page. ![]() The displayed results for the Open and Close area are a Stacks drop zone, so you can drop anything from text, paragraph, image or even a combination of other stacks into the zone. Daylight Savings Time is adjusted for automatically, no tinkering required for seasonal changes (if you have them).Īll 7 days of the week are customizable for Open and Close times, with the option of configuring a second set of hours for that location. If verifying fails because your Time Zone cannot be determined/detected by Google, a failure message is displayed, at which point you simply enter a major city close to your location and try again. If verification is successful a message displays saying as much, and once you receive that success message in the preview (takes a few seconds), you must uncheck the option right away or you will be viewing that success message on your live site all day long! ![]() Simply verify it with Google by checking the “Test Location” option and preview the page in RapidWeaver. Washington DC and San Diego CA), you can use one instance for Washington DC Hours and another instance for San Diego CA hours.įirst, add the Opening Hours Stack to a Stacks Page type in your project, then define the location of the company (i.e.: Toronto Ontario Canada or Postal/Zip Code) which is typed in the stack setting “Your Location”. If a company that you are developing for has more than one location (i.e. Saturday open from 9am to noon and 2pm to 6pm). The Opening Hours Stack has the capability of displaying a company’s open/close status on a per-day basis or, for those companies that have multiple open/close times per day, up to 2 can be defined (i.e. This stack will reduce those issues as compared to just posting your hours of operation on your website as text with no context of actual Time Zone (some people can’t figure out how to calculate local time from store time based on GMT) and this stack takes that out of the visitors hands and makes it crystal clear! If you’re operating a SOHO business, and using your home phone or cellular phone as contact information, you don’t want calls at 2am waking the family. You don’t want “Open for business” displayed in Sweden when you’re actually “Closed for business” in New York. Gary has created this stack with the intention of letting site viewers know your company’s hours of operation based on the viewers time zone. Doobox’s Opening Hours Stack “ knows where both you and your visitor are in the world, and offsets their current time to your location time, accounting for DST (Daylight Saving Time), and displays what you’d like as the appropriate content, based on whether or not your business is actually open at that time.“ Obviously during that time we’ve constantly released updates and we’d be looking to do the same with RapidWeaver 8 - Our goal (or purpose if you like) is to build the best web design software for Mac.Is your business actually open when a visitor from the other side of the world visits your website? Good question. Interestingly, I looked back at the release date for RapidWeaver 7, and it’s been over 2 years since it’s initial 7.0 release. ![]() I don’t want to announce any features or a release date yet as these things can change and I wouldn’t want to disappoint anyone. We can’t add everything, but we’re doing our best to make it kick-ass. Our main focus with this release is to add features and fixes requested by users and developers. RapidWeaver 8 is due for release later this year, and I’m please to say it’s shaping up to be the best version of RapidWeaver yet. I know I’ve been fairly quiet of late, but that’s because the whole team has been working hard on RapidWeaver 8 for the last 6+ months. ![]()
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