Ever wanted to display your Twitter feeds on your RapidWeaver site? With the Twitter Stack this is no longer Javascript coding or heavy-weight flash widgets. Based on Twitters own javascript API, Twitter Stack is a highly customizable stack that can be easily integrated into your website.

1. Main features

• Quickstart using clever default settings
• Customize the rendering of Tweets

2. Example

3. Download

Twitter Stack.dmg

Version 1.0 - 10/03/2010
Internal release

4. Installation

The installation of new Stacks is pretty straight forward. Just mount the downloaded Stack (which is usually done by the Mac already) and double click the Stack bundle inside the disk image.

5. How to get started?

Twitter Stack is useable right by pulling it off the toolbar into your Stacks page. It has some reasonable defaults that make it work immediately. Here are the setup steps ...

• Change the Username according to your Twitter account
• Set the number of tweets being rendered

Those are the minimum required settings to get you going. Now go to preview and test your first Twitter Stack

6. Support

All of my Stacks are provided as is. In other words I am not providing any professional level support for those Stacks. Nevertheless, feel free to contact me in case you have any questions or feature requests. Depending on my available time I will get back to you ...

7. Detailed Configuration

In order to tweak your new Stack a little more, there are several more detailed settings and configurations that can change the behavior as well as the look of your Stack.

The Twitter Stack HUD contains the following settings:

Username (default: designdisorder)
This is the Twitter username used to access the feed that should be rendered.

Hide Title (default: false)
Hide the title that's specified next.

Title (default: Twitter Updates)
Specify the title that will be displayed above the tweets.

Title Size (default: 1.5em)
Choose the title size.

Number of Tweets (default: 5)
Specify the number of tweets that will be displayed.

Border Width (default: 0 px)
Specify the border width of the box around a tweet.

Border Radius (default: 5 px)
Specify the border radius of the box around a tweet.

Shadow (default: 1 px)
Set the shadow of the of the box around a tweet.

Shadow Blur (default: 3 px)
Set the shadow blur of the of the box around a tweet.

Box (default: #e6e6e6)
Set the box color.

Border (default: #FFFFFF)
Set the border color.

Text (default: #000000)
Set the text color.

Link (default: #000000)
Set the text link color.

Beside those stack specific settings, all standard Stacks settings are supported in the HUD. Using Stacks version >1.3 you can easily get access to this help page by clicking on the ? button.

This concludes the settings for the Twitter Stack.