Introducing Heat Wave
Our latest theme, Heat Wave, is an impressive new theme for RapidWeaver that is simple, yet very flexible. Its clean look is great for designing a portfolio, blog, small business site and much more. This theme makes it easy to create a simply brilliant looking site in a short period of time!
Below is a brief rundown of the theme’s features, but you can jump right over to the product page to learn all the details.
Heat Wave offers
• 5 site widths
• 32 headers (compatible with RWmultitool)
• 3 sidebar options (right, left, hidden)
• Split navigation
• 4 horizontal menu tab styles
• 3 vertical menu tab styles
• 3 title sizes
• 3 slogan sizes
• 4 font style for Title & Slogan
• 4 font styles for Body
• 12 color picker options
Heat Wave 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:
• Menu background
• Site Background
• Links
• Body Font
• Site Title
• Site Slogan
• Content Border
• Breadcrumb Trail Text
• Breadcrumb Trail Background
• Menu Text (Horizontal)
• Sub menu Background Bar
• Sub menu Text
Learn more over on Heat Wave’s product page.
Moving into the future
Recently Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8, which is a huge improvement over both previous versions (6 and 7). In doing so they've also announced that update notices for users of both IE 6 and IE 7 will be sent out via Windows' updater, helping to get these people using a modern browser.
Being that Internet Explorer 6 is about 6 years old now and no longer supported by Microsoft, we're dropping support for this browser with the release of this theme. What does this mean for sites designed with this theme? It means that the sites you design with this theme will display in IE 6, but will not look identical to the way the site displays in other browsers. It also means that PNG images with transparent backgrounds will look slightly odd, with a tinted blue background. Other than this the site will not look messed up or disfigured in IE 6.
We have been using Internet Explorer 8 in our testing of this theme and find it to be a huge leap forward for Microsoft, and we encourage all PC users to upgrade. You won't regret it.
Ultimate deal
I’ve also added Heat Wave to the Ultimate Bundle. The price for the bundle remains $135, essentially making this brand new theme free when you purchase the Ultimate Bundle. This bundle, containing 17 themes, saves you $75.40!
Dress up your desktop
We’ve added a hot, new desktop to the wallpapers page for Heat Wave. Check it, and all the others, out and give your desktop and iPhone a new look.
Aqua Update v1.2 [updated x2]
Some users have been asking if they will need to install the v.1.1 update for this one to work. The simple answer is no. But if you want to receive the benefits of the v.1.1 update you will need to run the v1.1. updater BEFORE running the v.1.2 updater. I recommend running both myself.
Update 2:
As one user points out, I accidentally overwrote the v.1.1 update, so to make things easier I’ve added in the colors.css file in the v.1.2 update, hence combining both the v.1.1 and 1.2 updates into this one package. This updater is your one stop Aqua update.
I've made some more updates to the Aqua theme to correct some bugs found since its last release. All Aqua theme owners should grab this updater. Users who purchased the Aqua theme after April 14, 2009 do not need to install the v1.2 updater.
We're offering an updater application to automatically correct these found bugs in the theme. Simply download the updater below, and run it. The updater patches only the affected files within the theme.
Version 1.2
• Updates IEPNGFIX. This javascript allows Internet Explorer 6 to properly display PNG images correctly. Both those used in the theme those added in the users content. Latest version of IEPNGFIX is quicker it seems as well.
• Updates menu tab coding to allow for proper display in FireFox 2.0. Previously the tabs only displayed fully in Safari, FireFox 3.0, IE6 and IE7. FireFox 2.0 Now has no problems with them either.
Download the updater here:
http://www.elixirgraphics.com/downloads/updaters/AquaUpdater.dmg
After running the updater you'll need to quit and restart RapidWeaver. If you've published a site using Aqua you'll have to republish all your site's files. You can see how to accomplish this by watching the following walk-thru video found on the Realmac Software site:
Watch the walk-thru:
http://www.realmacsoftware.com/support/video-tutorials/re-publish/index.php
The internal files that are affected during the update are:
Theme.Plist
index.html
styles.css
colors.css
Adds Scripts Folder to theme, too.
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.
Stepping things up a bit
Last week however my boss, the editor of the Sports section of the paper, told us that he’d finally heard who was on the final list, and that if we’d like to know earlier than next week we could come in and speak with him. Seems that I am on that list of people. So, even though I’ve not officially been let go from the newspaper as of yet, I have taken this week and part of next as vacation time to get some elixir work completed.
If that long list of layoffs does not change over the next week I will let you all know. If I am in fact let go though you should see a lot more great stuff from elixir and its sister sites.
Aqua Update v1.1
We're offering an updater application to automatically correct these found bugs in the theme. Simply download the updater below, and run it. The updater patches only the affected files within the theme.
The updater fixes some errant tags in the colors.css file. It also updates index.html file to add conditional statements for Internet Explorer 6 which allow for better validation. This update is recommended for all users of the Aqua theme.
Download the updater here:
http://www.elixirgraphics.com/downloads/updaters/AquaUpdater.dmg
After running the updater you'll need to quit and restart RapidWeaver. If you've published a site using Aqua you'll want to republish all your site's files. You can see how to accomplish this by watching the following walk-thru video found on the Realmac Software site:
Watch the walk-thru:
http://www.realmacsoftware.com/support/video-tutorials/re-publish/index.php
The internal files that are affected during the update are:
Theme.Plist
colors.css
index.html
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.