I've made a very minor update to the Pipe Dream theme to correct a small bug with the coloring of the visited menu links of the metal style menu bars.

We're offering an updater application to automatically correct this little 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 Pipe Dream theme customers and is recommended for all customers who are using this theme.

(Version 1.1 - Updated on March 23, 2010)
• Fixes a bug which caused the current menu items, which have been visited, to appear in black instead of white. This bug only affects the 1st level (parent) menu bars that use the metal style.

Note: For more advanced RapidWeaver users who may or may not want to know, the following files that were modified internally are as follows: theme.plist, index.html, and css>menu>menu_metal.css, css>menu>menu_metal2.css and css>menu>menu_metal_goo.css

Tags: Updates

I have been working on the Lime theme for some time now. It takes into account some requests by users of our themes, including ExtraContent. This new theme, Lime, is a professional, bold design that is very good just any sort of site you can dream up. 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 Lime’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.

Lime offers...

Quicklook
Click the image below to see some of the many details of the Lime theme.

The Lime theme 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. No code needed:

Lime packs a big punch and is only $13.95.

You can learn more over on Lime product page and get all the details of the options outlined above. The Lime theme is also now included in our Ultimate Bundle. This bundles saves you a good deal of money on your theme purchases! Lime is also available in our smaller Business Bundle.


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 RapidWeaver 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!

Take Gyro for a spin
The Gyro stack is an image slider stack that can create elegant rotating banners for your Rapidweaver site. With all of the debates about the future of flash on the web, the smart thing to do is use simple widgets that utilize HTML/CSS/Javascript so that your site can be viewed across all platforms, even mobile. Gyro does just that! 

You will enjoy the simplicity of implementing the Gyro Stack. Similar to the Stacks Plug-in, the interface is intuitive and easy to build, while under the hood, its still very powerful machine. Gyro will hold as many images as you want and will dynamically build an elegant navigation ribbon. There are also 6 different ribbon themes to choose from out of the box that can be displayed on either the right or left hand side!

The video above, by RapidWeaver Classroom, shows how to use the Gyro stack with the Lime theme!

When you purchase the Lime theme you get a discount code included in the theme's README PDF file to get a discount on the Gyro stack.


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!

Tags: Lime, New Theme

I've made some very minor updates to the Factory theme to correct a small bug with it’s footer display.

We're offering an updater application to automatically correct this little 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 Factory theme customers and is recommended for all Factory theme users.

(Version 1.1 - Updated on March 1, 2010)
• Fixes a bug which caused the built-in RapidWeaver footer to not display
• Adds support for changing the color of the built-in RapidWeaver footer's color via the color picker

Note: For more advanced RapidWeaver users who may or may not want to know, the following files that were modified internally are as follows: theme.plist, index.html, colors.css and styles.css

Tags: Updates, Factory