Say hello to the Factory theme
I have been working on a new theme that takes into account some requests by users of our themes, including some jQuery animation and ExtraContent. This new theme, Factory, is a professional design that is very good for multi-purpose site development. It is great for creating a business site, a blog, a portfolio a personal or school site and much more.
Below is a quick rundown of Factory’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.
Factory offers...
Quicklook
Click the images below to see some of the MANY details of the Factory theme.
- Twenty-nine header options, including the use of the RW Color Picker and eight blank headers for use with RWmultitool
- Twelve slick header badges
- Two header heights: 160px and 210px (default)
- Ability to hide or show sidebar on page by page basis. Factory also has a sidebar variation which lets your visitors collapse the sidebar as well
- Five container width variations
- Three blog badge styles
- Three site title sizes, as well as the ability to hide the title on a page-by-page basis
- Three site slogan sizes, as well as the ability to hide the title on a page-by-page basis
- Choice of three font styles for the site title and slogan
- Six horizontal menu styles
- Eight site background choices, including the ability to use the RapidWeaver color picker.
Factory also makes heavy 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:
- Header background
- Links
- Site background
- Site Title and Slogan
- Content background
- Sidebar background
- Sidebar text
- Sidebar border
- Sub Menu background
- Sub Menu text
- Sub Ment Current Item background
- Sub Ment Current Item text
- Breadcrumb background
- Breadcrumb links
- Contact Form Input Field text
- ExtraContent Footer background
- ExtraContent Footer text
- ExtraContent Header text
You can learn more over on Factory product page and get all the details of the options outlined above. The Factory theme is also now included in both our Ultimate Bundle. This bundles saves you a good deal of money on your theme purchases!
New to ExtraContent?
Are you new to themes that use ExtraContent? We were when we started this project, and we had lots of questions going in regarding how our users would make use of this great feature. So we teamed up with RapidWeaver Classroom to introduce you to this great new feature. Checkout this video to get an intro course on using ExtraContent.
Don’t forget to checkout RW Classroom and all of the other amazing courses they offer! They’re an amazing resource, and all of their students get discount codes for our products!
Learn the ins and outs of RapidWeaver
RapidWeaver Classroom has begun a new series of video tutorials incorporating much of the RapidWeaver Classroom curriculum that has been developed over the course of nearly two years. The Complete Design Demonstration series takes you through the process of designing a website from start to finish, using many of the different 3rd-party plugins and theme features such as ExtraContent.
The purpose of this series is to demonstrate the usage of plugins and other features in a real-world scenario, and to break-down designs that are seemingly complex into something much more simple. To begin this new series, you can learn how many of the pages at RapidWeaver Classroom were developed, utilizing 3rd-party plugins such as Stacks, PlusKit, Carousel, Accordion, Collage 2, EasyTube, and more.
The series has launched with 4 video tutorials totaling 45 minutes of content, and more screencasts will be added weekly. The Complete Design Demonstration series, along with over 170 other RapidWeaver tutorials, is available now to RapidWeaver Classroom subscribers.
RapidWeaver Classroom subscribers also receive discounts on elixir products!
Dress up your desktop
With such an awesome new theme I felt you should have a awesome new desktop as well. Check out our latest, free desktop wallpaper for the release of our new theme!
Giveaway announcements
Our winners of the free Thurly App registration are:
• Christie Brasser
• Stan Brodsky
• Christopher Sucher
The winners who will receive Icon Lab’s Ideal Icon set are:
• Adam MacHardie
• Chris Missirian
• Joseph Inovero
Emails have been sent to all of out winners with their prizes.
Big discounts
We’re offering our Ultimate bundle for only $59.95. The Ultimate Bundle includes each and every theme we sell in our store (29 themes in total). This bundle normally sells for $152, so this sale gets you all of our themes for about 1/3 of the bundle’s normal price! It doesn’t get much better than that.
This sale saves you $289.90!
Our Nimbus theme, which was released today, is also included in this amazing bundle.
We currently have no plans do have a sale of this magnitude for the rest of 2010.
Team-up
I’ve teamed up with some other 3rd-party developers to bring you some more great deals as well! Listed below are some of the other benefits we’ve got for you...
Included with the Bundle:
- YourHead Software
Isaiah is providing a huge discount on his must-have RapidWeaver plug-in, Stacks. When you purchase the Ultimate Bundle in next 5 days you’ll receive a PDF containing a coupon code that will get you a whopping 35% off this amazing plug-in. Just enter the code during checkout on the YourHead site. This is a great deal! - seyDesign
Adam Merrifield of seyDesign is offering a 35% discount to all customers who purchase the Ultimate Bundle in the next 5 days. When you purchase the Ultimate Bundle you’ll receive a PDF containing a coupon code which will get you discount on your entire order when you buy something from seyDesign.
Some savings for everyone:
- Blueball Design
The fine folks over at Blueball Design are offering up a coupon code for all elixir customers that will save you 25% off of all of their themes and stacks plug-ins. Charlie makes some of the best themes and stacks plug-ins in the RapidWeaver community. If you’ve not already seen what he has to offer, please be sure to check them out. The coupon code is: blueball5yr25off - Icon Lab
In addition to the amazing sale on our Ultimate Bundle, our sister site The Icon Lab is also offering a 5 day sale on their Unity icon set. Use the discount code FEBUNIFICATION during checkout to receive the Unity icon set for only $12.95!
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.
Giveaways!
On Monday, February 15, the day after Valentine's day, I'll be giving away 3 registered copies of Thurly for Safari and 3 Ideal Icon sets from the Icon Lab. The giveaways will be given away at random to those people who purchased a copy of the Ultimate Bundle from Feb. 10-14.
On cloud nine
I have been working on a new theme for a little while now that takes into account some requests by users of our themes. This new theme, Nimbus, can be clean and classy but also has the ability to give you a grungy look as well. It is a theme that is very good for multi-purpose development. It is great for creating a small business site, a blog, a portfolio a personal or school site and much, much more.
Below is a quick rundown of Nimbus’ 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.
Nimbus offers...
- Ten header options, including the use of the RW Color Picker
- Five blank headers for use with RWmultitool
- Fourteen background options, including RW Color Picker
- Ability to hide or show sidebar on page by page basis
- Five content width variations
- Ability to place site title and slogan in different locations
- Variations to toggle header shadow on and off
- Choice of serif or sans serif font
- Six color picker options
Nimbus 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
- Links
- Site Title and Slogan
- Header background
- Sidebar background
- Content text
You can learn more over on Nimbus’ product page and get all the details of the options outlined above. The Nimbus theme is also now included in both our Ultimate Bundle and Business Bundle. These bundles save you a good deal of money on your theme purchases.
Dress up your desktop
With such a classy new theme I felt you should have a classy desktop as well. Check out our latest, free desktop wallpaper for the release of our Nimbus theme!