Notebook Updater v1.2
Wednesday January 27, 2010 | Filed in: Themes
We're offering an updater application to automatically correct this bug. Simply download the updater below, and run it. The updater patches only the affected files within the theme. This update is free to all Notebook theme customers.
(Version 1.2 - Updated on January 27, 2010)
• Fixes a missing tag in the Index.html file.
This update also contains all of the fixes that were made in the Notebook v1.1 update as well.
For the expert level users, the internal theme files updated are. File that are bolded are from the 1.2 update. Others are from the 1.1 update:
index.html, theme.plist, colors.css.
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Float theme update v1.5
Thursday January 14, 2010 | Filed in: Themes
(Version 1.5 - Updated on January 14, 2010)
• Fixes bug where the menu font defaults back to Lucida Grande for navigation links that have been visited. This update ensures that visited links do not change fonts.
This update is suggested for Float theme owners using other fonts aside from the default theme font in the navigation. This updater is not needed for users who purchase this theme after January 14, 2010.
This update also contains all of the fixes that were made in the Float v1.2 through v1.4 updates as well.
Internal theme files updated are:
index.hmtl, styles.css, theme.plist, colors.css, as well as these files in the css>fonts folder: menu_georgia.css, menu_helv.css, menu_lucida.css, menu_palatino.css
Happy Holidays!
Thursday December 24, 2009 | Filed in: Personal
Beginning today, December 24, 2009 I’ll be out of the office for the holidays. Liz and I are going out of town Friday evening and will be gone for a while so I won’t be getting back to emails until we return January 5, 2010.
I did want to offer you all some goodies and tell you about some of what we have going on.
Kiwi
If you’ve not heard Isaiah, from YourHead Software, has recently released Kiwi, a brand-new twitter client. It is truly outstanding! I had the pleasure of working on it with him, designing graphics and UI elements and such, as well as themes for the app itself. I look forward to continuing my work with him on Kiwi as the app goes forward.
Kiwi Themes
In connection to Kiwi, Ollie Levy and myself are working on Kiwi Themes. It is a repository for themes for Isaiah’s twitter client. Currently We have 12 themes online and will have more after the new year. We’re also working on a system to allow users to upload their own themes to share with the world, and much more. So be sure to check that out at http://kiwithemes.com
Wallpaper
I’ve also put up some desktop wallpaper for Kiwi to help dress up your Mac.
Icons
While you’re on the Icon Lab check out out the Kiwi wallpaper be sure to have a look at our Unity icon set. It was released earlier this year and is great for site and application development. We’re offering a holiday discount for items at both Elixir and the Icon Lab at the bottom of this blog post.
Dashing
Speaking of recently released items — I recently put out a new RapidWeaver theme titled Dashing. It’s a great theme for designing a small business site, blog, personal site, portfolio and much more. It too is included in the holiday discount below, as well as our Ultimate Bundle which includes each and every theme we sell.
Holiday discount
You can use the discount code below during checkout to receive 25% off your entire purchase. The sale ends January 6, 2010 at noon (Eastern US time). The code for the discount is HOLIDAYFUN09. This code is good at both here at Elixir as well as at the Icon Lab.
I hope that everyone has a wonderful, and safe, holiday and we want you to know we have a lot of really exciting things planned for 2010!
I did want to offer you all some goodies and tell you about some of what we have going on.
Kiwi
If you’ve not heard Isaiah, from YourHead Software, has recently released Kiwi, a brand-new twitter client. It is truly outstanding! I had the pleasure of working on it with him, designing graphics and UI elements and such, as well as themes for the app itself. I look forward to continuing my work with him on Kiwi as the app goes forward.
Kiwi Themes
In connection to Kiwi, Ollie Levy and myself are working on Kiwi Themes. It is a repository for themes for Isaiah’s twitter client. Currently We have 12 themes online and will have more after the new year. We’re also working on a system to allow users to upload their own themes to share with the world, and much more. So be sure to check that out at http://kiwithemes.com
Wallpaper
I’ve also put up some desktop wallpaper for Kiwi to help dress up your Mac.
Icons
While you’re on the Icon Lab check out out the Kiwi wallpaper be sure to have a look at our Unity icon set. It was released earlier this year and is great for site and application development. We’re offering a holiday discount for items at both Elixir and the Icon Lab at the bottom of this blog post.
Dashing
Speaking of recently released items — I recently put out a new RapidWeaver theme titled Dashing. It’s a great theme for designing a small business site, blog, personal site, portfolio and much more. It too is included in the holiday discount below, as well as our Ultimate Bundle which includes each and every theme we sell.
Holiday discount
You can use the discount code below during checkout to receive 25% off your entire purchase. The sale ends January 6, 2010 at noon (Eastern US time). The code for the discount is HOLIDAYFUN09. This code is good at both here at Elixir as well as at the Icon Lab.
I hope that everyone has a wonderful, and safe, holiday and we want you to know we have a lot of really exciting things planned for 2010!
Dashing theme update v1.1
Thursday December 03, 2009 | Filed in: Themes
I’ve updated the Dashing theme to correct a bug found in the horizontal menu.
We're offering an updater application to automatically correct this bug. Simply download the updater below, and run it. The updater patches only the affected files within the theme.
The updater fixes a bug in which the horizontal menu items that have been visited no longer show correct active menu graphic.
Download the updater here
After running the updater you'll need to quit and restart RapidWeaver. If you've published a site using Dashing you'll need to republish all your site's files to be certain that the update is published to your active site. You can see how to accomplish this by watching the following walk-thru video found on the Realmac Software site:
Watch the walk-thru
The internal files that are affected during the update are:
Theme.Plist
styles.css
index.html
and all of the files in the contents>css>menu folder
If you’re a power user and have modified any of these files internally within the theme, those changes will be overwritten by the installer. If you want to maintain your changes you’ll have to copy your changes and reapply them to the updated files afterwards. If you’re not a superdy-dooper power user there’s no need to worry about any of this mumbo-jumbo. Just run the installer and republish your site as directed above.
This update is recommended for all Dashing theme owners to fix the cosmetic problem with the horizontal menu.
We're offering an updater application to automatically correct this bug. Simply download the updater below, and run it. The updater patches only the affected files within the theme.
The updater fixes a bug in which the horizontal menu items that have been visited no longer show correct active menu graphic.
Download the updater here
After running the updater you'll need to quit and restart RapidWeaver. If you've published a site using Dashing you'll need to republish all your site's files to be certain that the update is published to your active site. You can see how to accomplish this by watching the following walk-thru video found on the Realmac Software site:
Watch the walk-thru
The internal files that are affected during the update are:
Theme.Plist
styles.css
index.html
and all of the files in the contents>css>menu folder
If you’re a power user and have modified any of these files internally within the theme, those changes will be overwritten by the installer. If you want to maintain your changes you’ll have to copy your changes and reapply them to the updated files afterwards. If you’re not a superdy-dooper power user there’s no need to worry about any of this mumbo-jumbo. Just run the installer and republish your site as directed above.
This update is recommended for all Dashing theme owners to fix the cosmetic problem with the horizontal menu.
Wedding time!
Tuesday November 24, 2009 | Filed in: Personal
This week Liz and I will be getting married. We’re getting hitched on November 27th, which is this Friday.
Needless to say, starting Wednesday (Nov. 25) I will be taking a break from answering emails and answering support questions. I’ll be away about a week or so, give or take a day. I’d like to say that I’ll keep an eye out on the inbox and the site, but I’m going to be honest and say that there is likely no chance I’ll open the inbox while we’re away on our honeymoon. I will definitely be on Twitter up through Friday afternoon, but cannot promise much more than that.
If you have questions, comments or problems, drop me an email and I will get back to you when we return.
Needless to say, starting Wednesday (Nov. 25) I will be taking a break from answering emails and answering support questions. I’ll be away about a week or so, give or take a day. I’d like to say that I’ll keep an eye out on the inbox and the site, but I’m going to be honest and say that there is likely no chance I’ll open the inbox while we’re away on our honeymoon. I will definitely be on Twitter up through Friday afternoon, but cannot promise much more than that.
If you have questions, comments or problems, drop me an email and I will get back to you when we return.
RWClassroom Free Preview
Thursday November 19, 2009 | Filed in: Plug-ins
We have teamed up with RWClassroom to bring you some great getting started videos on our help desk page, as we’ve mentioned in the past. While the videos we offer are only a small sampling of what RWClassroom actually offers, they are a great starting place.
We’re happy to be able to bring you a 6 minute sample video of RWClassroom’s “Introduction to Stacks” video. It is no secret that we love Stacks. So we’re hoping this gives those who have yet to try the plug-in, or RWClassroom, a sampling of both for free!
Grab a soda and have a quick watch... And it’ll be much more beneficial than just watching those YouTube clips of a cat flushing a toilet, right?
Check out the sample now.
Let us know what you think of RWClassroom, Stacks and the free preview so we can bring you more helpful RW options!
handsom
We’re happy to be able to bring you a 6 minute sample video of RWClassroom’s “Introduction to Stacks” video. It is no secret that we love Stacks. So we’re hoping this gives those who have yet to try the plug-in, or RWClassroom, a sampling of both for free!
Grab a soda and have a quick watch... And it’ll be much more beneficial than just watching those YouTube clips of a cat flushing a toilet, right?
Check out the sample now.
Let us know what you think of RWClassroom, Stacks and the free preview so we can bring you more helpful RW options!
handsom
A dashing new theme
Wednesday November 18, 2009 | Filed in: Themes
I’m really pumped up about our latest RapidWeaver theme offering. I’m happy to announce our Dashing theme. It is a great choice for creating a business site, small or large, portfolio, blog, personal site and much, much more.
Below is a quick rundown of Dashing’s features. You can jump over to the product page to learn all the details as well as check out the live preview site and walk-thru video.
Dashing offers...
• Seven width variations, ranging from 500px up to 1,150px
• Four background options, including the ability to use the RW color picker
• Twenty five professionally crafted header styles
• Five blank headers for use with RWmultitool
• Four sidebar location options, including an animated, above content option
• Eight stylish horizontal menu variations
• Five different vertical, submenu styles
• Ability to hide or show the archives on the blog page on a page-by-page basis
• Three logo location options
• Five site title and slogan font choices
• Five font choices for the blog entry titles
Dashing also makes use of the RapidWeaver color picker. With it you can change the colors for all of the following areas of your site design with the quick click of the mouse:
• Site background
• Site title
• Site slogan
• Body text
• Links
• Links (hover)
• Blog entry titles
• Sidebar labels (titles)
• File sharing page item backgrounds
• File sharing page item text
You can learn more over on Dashing’s product page and get all the details of the options outlined above. The Dashing theme is also now included in both our Ultimate Bundle and Business Bundle.
RWClassroom
New to RapidWeaver? Honing your site building skills? Check out RWClassroom. We’ve partnered with RWClassroom to provide their subscribers with discounts on Elixir themes. We're also hosting some of their great tutorial videos on our help pages.
Dress up your desktop
With such a stunning theme we feel you should have a dapper desktop as well. Check out our latest, free desktop wallpaper for the release of our Dashing theme!
Below is a quick rundown of Dashing’s features. You can jump over to the product page to learn all the details as well as check out the live preview site and walk-thru video.
• Seven width variations, ranging from 500px up to 1,150px
• Four background options, including the ability to use the RW color picker
• Twenty five professionally crafted header styles
• Five blank headers for use with RWmultitool
• Four sidebar location options, including an animated, above content option
• Eight stylish horizontal menu variations
• Five different vertical, submenu styles
• Ability to hide or show the archives on the blog page on a page-by-page basis
• Three logo location options
• Five site title and slogan font choices
• Five font choices for the blog entry titles
Dashing also makes use of the RapidWeaver color picker. With it you can change the colors for all of the following areas of your site design with the quick click of the mouse:
• Site background
• Site title
• Site slogan
• Body text
• Links
• Links (hover)
• Blog entry titles
• Sidebar labels (titles)
• File sharing page item backgrounds
• File sharing page item text
You can learn more over on Dashing’s product page and get all the details of the options outlined above. The Dashing theme is also now included in both our Ultimate Bundle and Business Bundle.
RWClassroom
New to RapidWeaver? Honing your site building skills? Check out RWClassroom. We’ve partnered with RWClassroom to provide their subscribers with discounts on Elixir themes. We're also hosting some of their great tutorial videos on our help pages.
Dress up your desktop
With such a stunning theme we feel you should have a dapper desktop as well. Check out our latest, free desktop wallpaper for the release of our Dashing theme!
Special Delivery
Thursday September 24, 2009 |
So during our Ultimate Bundle promotion we gave away a bright green iPod Shuffle to a randomly chosen Ultimate Bundle customer. The winner, John Fisher, just dropped me a very special e-mail. Seems on the day his iPod Shuffle came in the mail he also received a much more precious delivery... a baby boy by the name of Quinn!! This is too awesome. We wish John and his family all the best!
