We've made a few minor updates to the Espresso theme to correct some bugs found since its release. If this update affects you will receive an email sent to the address you used during your purchase of the theme. It will not hurt anything to run the update and your theme is already up to date.

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.

Download the updater here:
http://www.elixirgraphics.com/downloads/updaters/EspressoUpdater.dmg

After running the updater you'll need to quit and restart RapidWeaver. If you've published a site using Espresso 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
styles.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.

Tags: Updates, Theme, Espresso

Our latest theme, Espresso, is a really flexible theme with a stylish appearance, that allows you to showcase your content. Espresso is highly flexible, allowing you to modify a lot of different areas of your site design through the Page Inspector.

Here’s a brief rundown of the theme’s features, but you can jump right over to the product page to learn all the tasty details.

Espresso offers

• Six header widths
• Six body widths
• Four sidebar variations (left, right, top, hidden)
• Eight built-in stock logos, as well as the RapidWeaver logo placement (found in the site setup)
• Three logo positioning options
• Eighteen professionally design background, including the option to use the color picker
• Twelve horizontal menu styles (Espresso is a split navigation theme)
• Seventeen header stripe variations
• Four header / slogan font choices
• Three body font choices and three body font sizes
• Three sidebar font choices and three sidebar font sizes
• Three blog title font styles

Espresso 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:
• Site background
• Body font
• Sidebar font
• Sidebar title
• Links
• Sidebar links
• Sidebar background
• Sidebar border
• Site title
• Site slogan
• Blog entry titles
• Sub menu font
• Sub menu background
• Sub menu bar current page
• Sub menu selected current page font
• Sub menu bar hover
• Sub menu bar hover font
• Blockquote background
• Blockquote text
• Footer type
• Footer divider line

Learn more over on Espresso’s product page.

Moving into the future
For Espresso's sidebar and blockquote we're using a method for rounding the corners that is part of the CSS 3 standard. This is used on many popular sites and services like Twitter and Apple. It provides nice, lightweight, rounded corners and in older browsers that do not support it it degrades gracefully to normal squared off boxes as to not cause problems for your users.

Save a bundle
We’ve also added Espresso to our Ultimate Bundle. You can get Espresso, as well as 15 other professional RapidWeaver themes for only $135!

Dress up your desktop
We’ve added a new, spiffy desktop to the wallpapers page for Espresso.

Tags: New Theme, Espresso, RapidWeaver, Theme