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Minor updates
Thursday November 27, 2008 | Filed in: elixir
Just a quick couple of changes to the site— I’ve fixed a wrong link in the RSS feed in the sidebar the left. You can read our blog via that RSS feed or subscribe via Feedburner.
I also added the Skinny Series of themes back to the theme listing page. I’d mistakenly left it out, even though Paper and Plastic are both available and come in the Ultimate bundle.
I’ve also styled up the Comments pop-up window a bit to dress things up to match the new site design. Click on the Comments link at the end of this post to check it out. Let me know what you think.
Don’t forget to check out our sale.
I also added the Skinny Series of themes back to the theme listing page. I’d mistakenly left it out, even though Paper and Plastic are both available and come in the Ultimate bundle.
I’ve also styled up the Comments pop-up window a bit to dress things up to match the new site design. Click on the Comments link at the end of this post to check it out. Let me know what you think.
Don’t forget to check out our sale.
Free theme: Cloud
Friday June 13, 2008 | Filed in: Themes
This week has seen something new from us each day. Today brings something free to all of our users...
Today — Today we're releasing our popular Cloud theme as a free download. Drop by Cloud's product page to get your free download today!
Thursday — Thursday saw the release of our latest RapidWeaver theme — Notebook. This new theme is a real looker. It brings a unique style to your website while remaining classy. It is packed with a ton of theme variations in order for you to customize it and give it your own feel.
Wednesday — We released our first sets of Collage 2 style packs. These stylish Collage 2 packages have been a real hit. They're a great way to dress up your Collage 2 page with just a couple of clicks.
Tuesday — We released a new set of wallpapers for your Mac and iPhone. Two words: Cosmically beautiful!
Monday — We updated our Vanilla theme to fix a small bug with the top sidebar and its background color option.
Today — Today we're releasing our popular Cloud theme as a free download. Drop by Cloud's product page to get your free download today!
Thursday — Thursday saw the release of our latest RapidWeaver theme — Notebook. This new theme is a real looker. It brings a unique style to your website while remaining classy. It is packed with a ton of theme variations in order for you to customize it and give it your own feel.
Wednesday — We released our first sets of Collage 2 style packs. These stylish Collage 2 packages have been a real hit. They're a great way to dress up your Collage 2 page with just a couple of clicks.
Tuesday — We released a new set of wallpapers for your Mac and iPhone. Two words: Cosmically beautiful!
Monday — We updated our Vanilla theme to fix a small bug with the top sidebar and its background color option.
New theme: Notebook
Thursday June 12, 2008 | Filed in: Themes
Say hello to Notebook
I've been toiling away on this new RapidWeaver theme for a while now, and I am quite excited to show it off.
Our latest theme, titled Notebook, is a real looker. It brings a unique style to your website while remaining classy. It is packed with a ton of theme variations in order for you to customize it and give it your own feel.
This new theme is a great choice for anyone interested in designing a blog, personal website, small business site or portfolio.
Let's get acquainted with Notebook —
The basics
Here's a quick rundown of the Notebook theme's variations. More details are covered on the Notebook product page:
Theme Variations
• Header visibility
• Header styles
• Title and slogan visibility
• Background
• Sidebar tab color
• Blog archives visibility
• Sidebar visibility
• Site search visibility
• Logo settings
• Page title visibility
• Body font styles
• Sidebar font styles
Color Variations
The Notebook theme makes use of RapidWeaver's Color Picker, allowing you to easily change the appearance of your site with a couple clicks of the mouse. We also provide built-in color schemes. For more information, see the Notebook product page.
You can edit these parts of the theme with the color picker:
• Site Background
• Site title
• Site slogan
• Blog title
• Site links
• Menu bar
• Menu bar - hover
• Menu text
• Menu text - hover
This theme works exclusively with RapidWeaver 3.6 and above.
For more
Be sure to read all of the details regarding Notebook to see what it has to offer you.
I've been toiling away on this new RapidWeaver theme for a while now, and I am quite excited to show it off.
Our latest theme, titled Notebook, is a real looker. It brings a unique style to your website while remaining classy. It is packed with a ton of theme variations in order for you to customize it and give it your own feel.
This new theme is a great choice for anyone interested in designing a blog, personal website, small business site or portfolio.
Let's get acquainted with Notebook —
The basics
Here's a quick rundown of the Notebook theme's variations. More details are covered on the Notebook product page:
Theme Variations
• Header visibility
• Header styles
• Title and slogan visibility
• Background
• Sidebar tab color
• Blog archives visibility
• Sidebar visibility
• Site search visibility
• Logo settings
• Page title visibility
• Body font styles
• Sidebar font styles
Color Variations
The Notebook theme makes use of RapidWeaver's Color Picker, allowing you to easily change the appearance of your site with a couple clicks of the mouse. We also provide built-in color schemes. For more information, see the Notebook product page.
You can edit these parts of the theme with the color picker:
• Site Background
• Site title
• Site slogan
• Blog title
• Site links
• Menu bar
• Menu bar - hover
• Menu text
• Menu text - hover
This theme works exclusively with RapidWeaver 3.6 and above.
For more
Be sure to read all of the details regarding Notebook to see what it has to offer you.
Cosmic beauty
Tuesday June 10, 2008 | Filed in: Desktops
I worked up some new wallpapers recently for both your desktop and iPhone. I'd been cosmically inspired by Leopard's space themed wallpaper and wanted to work up my own — elixir style.
Drop by the desktops section and get some swirly, cosmic goodness to spruce up your Mac or iPhone. You can check out a larger preview on the desktops page as well.
Drop by the desktops section and get some swirly, cosmic goodness to spruce up your Mac or iPhone. You can check out a larger preview on the desktops page as well.
Diversification
Friday June 06, 2008 | Filed in: elixir
We do a lot of things here at elixir — Stock and custom RapidWeaver themes, icon and logo design, website development, and now even homework. OK, we don't do homework, but we help!
One of our customers e-mailed us the other day to ask a question. In his e-mail he also included this anecdote that made use smile. I asked him if we could share it with you all and he kindly obliged:
From Robert:
Reading this e-mail from Robert truly made me smile. I'm very happy that we could help out, without even knowing it. It also shows how quick anyone can pickup RapidWeaver and start learning it.
I'd not mentioned this to Robert yet, and wanted to wait until this blog post went up, but we've sent he and his son some other themes. Just in case he might have some other school projects to work on. ;-)
One of our customers e-mailed us the other day to ask a question. In his e-mail he also included this anecdote that made use smile. I asked him if we could share it with you all and he kindly obliged:
From Robert:
I bought one of your themes — Elements — the day I bought Rapidweaver. My 10 year old son announced he had a major project on space to deliver for school — "Just a written report, film or presentation" he said. He had done virtually nothing in three weeks and it needed to be in the next morning! Neither of us had ever designed a website in our lives, but after seeing your theme, I risked it, we downloaded RW and your theme, learned how to use it in an afternoon and completed the project on space shuttles as a website just a few hours later, thanks to you and the folks at RW. It really was a cinch to use even for a ten year old. My only disappointment was that he only got a B [on the project] — but at least it was better than the fail he would have been heading for with no project.
Reading this e-mail from Robert truly made me smile. I'm very happy that we could help out, without even knowing it. It also shows how quick anyone can pickup RapidWeaver and start learning it.
I'd not mentioned this to Robert yet, and wanted to wait until this blog post went up, but we've sent he and his son some other themes. Just in case he might have some other school projects to work on. ;-)
All updated and ready to go
Wednesday May 28, 2008 | Filed in: Themes
Whew, we have finished our updates in preparing for RapidWeaver 4.0's immanent arrival.
All of our themes have been upgraded, adding in, and updating, the few files that will bring them up to date for RapidWeaver 4.0.
All of our latest themes have already been shipped with the files needed and the rest fixed today or a couple of weeks ago when we sent out other updates.
The themes updated today all got updaters, which make it easier to do the upgrades. The updater only replaces the following files within your theme(s):
• Preview.Png
• Preview_Large.jpg
• Theme.Plist
All other files within the theme go untouched.
For the updater to work your themes must be located in the Library>Application Support>RapidWeaver folder located in your User folder. If you're unsure what this means, then you have probably not moved your themes or modified them. The updaters will only work with the theme installed. Without the theme it is useless.
Also, people have asked whether changes they have made themselves to their Theme.Plist file will get overwritten. Yes. This updater replaces that file. Be sure to back it up if necessary before running the updater.
Here are the updaters once again from today:
Cloud — Download Updater
Dark — Download Updater
Light — Download Updater
Organic — Download Updater
Origami — Download Updater
Paper — Download Updater
Plastic — Download Updater
Ribbon — Download Updater
Sprout — Download Updater
Toast — Download Updater
Again, all of our themes have been updated for 4.0 or shipped with the needed files at their release. So if your theme is not on this list, it is already ready for RW 4.0.
[Update]: Many have asked if the updated themes will work with RapidWeaver 3.6. Yes. The new and updated files provided by these updaters have no adverse affects on RapidWeaver 3.6.
All of our themes have been upgraded, adding in, and updating, the few files that will bring them up to date for RapidWeaver 4.0.
All of our latest themes have already been shipped with the files needed and the rest fixed today or a couple of weeks ago when we sent out other updates.
The themes updated today all got updaters, which make it easier to do the upgrades. The updater only replaces the following files within your theme(s):
• Preview.Png
• Preview_Large.jpg
• Theme.Plist
All other files within the theme go untouched.
For the updater to work your themes must be located in the Library>Application Support>RapidWeaver folder located in your User folder. If you're unsure what this means, then you have probably not moved your themes or modified them. The updaters will only work with the theme installed. Without the theme it is useless.
Also, people have asked whether changes they have made themselves to their Theme.Plist file will get overwritten. Yes. This updater replaces that file. Be sure to back it up if necessary before running the updater.
Here are the updaters once again from today:
Cloud — Download Updater
Dark — Download Updater
Light — Download Updater
Organic — Download Updater
Origami — Download Updater
Paper — Download Updater
Plastic — Download Updater
Ribbon — Download Updater
Sprout — Download Updater
Toast — Download Updater
Again, all of our themes have been updated for 4.0 or shipped with the needed files at their release. So if your theme is not on this list, it is already ready for RW 4.0.
[Update]: Many have asked if the updated themes will work with RapidWeaver 3.6. Yes. The new and updated files provided by these updaters have no adverse affects on RapidWeaver 3.6.
Desktop bling
Wednesday March 21, 2007 | Filed in: Desktops
Liz has created a new desktop wallpaper to help dress up your Mac. While not elixir or RapidWeaver related, it is quite cool.
Drop by the desktops page to download it and check the others out, too.
Drop by the desktops page to download it and check the others out, too.
Just dreamy
Friday March 16, 2007 | Filed in: elixir
What had become a week-long nightmare ended up as a dream today.
I have been battling problems with my web host and domain registrar for about a week now. What started as a few slow loading pages blossomed into entire areas of the site simply not loading. When I contacted my provider, GoDaddy, to gain a bit of assistance they told me: 'The problem has been resolved and if you have further problems, let us know.'
Great, I thought. I like it when people help me solve my problems. But unfortunately it was not true. I went back and forth a few times and even involved John over at Loghound at one point to help me figure things out. But alas it all pointed back to GoDaddy. Funny thing is they kept repeating their mantra: 'Everything is fine. Nothing is wrong.'
Well, I couldn't take their lack of help any longer. So I packed my bags and headed for a better host. Upon John's recommendation I checked out DreamHost. And let me tell you what, these guys are very helpful and quick. They didn't let my e-mails go unanswered or take 8 hours to return them, as GoDaddy did.
Within the day they had everything up and running and everything is back to normal. Funny thing is, I didn't change my coding at all. Everything, code-wise, is and was working fine. Come to find out, it was a GoDaddy problem. Go figure.
If you're looking for a host or just a domain registrar, I would highly recommend DreamHost. But, no matter who you go with, just say NoDaddy.
We will be moving CSStux and a few of our other projects over to DreamHost, from GoDaddy, early next week when our schedule becomes a little more freed up.
I have been battling problems with my web host and domain registrar for about a week now. What started as a few slow loading pages blossomed into entire areas of the site simply not loading. When I contacted my provider, GoDaddy, to gain a bit of assistance they told me: 'The problem has been resolved and if you have further problems, let us know.'
Great, I thought. I like it when people help me solve my problems. But unfortunately it was not true. I went back and forth a few times and even involved John over at Loghound at one point to help me figure things out. But alas it all pointed back to GoDaddy. Funny thing is they kept repeating their mantra: 'Everything is fine. Nothing is wrong.'
Well, I couldn't take their lack of help any longer. So I packed my bags and headed for a better host. Upon John's recommendation I checked out DreamHost. And let me tell you what, these guys are very helpful and quick. They didn't let my e-mails go unanswered or take 8 hours to return them, as GoDaddy did.
Within the day they had everything up and running and everything is back to normal. Funny thing is, I didn't change my coding at all. Everything, code-wise, is and was working fine. Come to find out, it was a GoDaddy problem. Go figure.
If you're looking for a host or just a domain registrar, I would highly recommend DreamHost. But, no matter who you go with, just say NoDaddy.
We will be moving CSStux and a few of our other projects over to DreamHost, from GoDaddy, early next week when our schedule becomes a little more freed up.