One tasty new theme — Lime
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.
- Six content width options, ranging from 600 px up through 1,100 px. The default width if 900 px
- Ten header backgrounds, including the ability to use the RapidWeaver Color Picker to choose a solid color
- Eight different header overlays which allow you to better customize the look of your site. Overlays default to being not visible
- Six blank header overlays for use with RWmultitool
- Four header content / height options, which include the ability to use ExtraContent in the header
- Two additional ExtraContent areas (in addition to the header option). One is just below the header, the other in the footer.
- Nine bold menu style choices.
- The sidebar can be placed on either the right- or left-hand side of the site, or hidden altogether. Default is on the right-hand side
- Five different blog badge styles. The default is a stylish star.
- Ability to add extra style to the sub menu bar with a riveted look.
- Ability to add the page's title to the top of the content area. Defaults to being hidden
- Sixteen different color picker options. These are detailed in the variations section (click the eyedropper icon above).
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:
- Header background
- Links
- Content Text
- Sidebar Text
- Site Title
- Site Slogan
- Breadcrumb Links
- Breadcrumb Background
- Footer Background
- Footer Text
- Footer Links
- ExtraContent Area 1 Text (header)
- ExtraContent Area 2 Background (top of content)
- ExtraContent Area 2 Text (top of content)
- ExtraContent Area 3 Text (footer)
- ExtraContent Area 3 Links (footer)
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!
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!
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!
A dashing new theme
Below is a quick rundown of Dashing’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.
• Seven width variations, ranging from 500px up to 1,150px
• Four background options, including the ability to use the RW color picker
• Twenty five professionally crafted header styles
• Five blank headers for use with RWmultitool
• Four sidebar location options, including an animated, above content option
• Eight stylish horizontal menu variations
• Five different vertical, submenu styles
• Ability to hide or show the archives on the blog page on a page-by-page basis
• Three logo location options
• Five site title and slogan font choices
• Five font choices for the blog entry titles
Dashing 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
• Site title
• Site slogan
• Body text
• Links
• Links (hover)
• Blog entry titles
• Sidebar labels (titles)
• File sharing page item backgrounds
• File sharing page item text
You can learn more over on Dashing’s product page and get all the details of the options outlined above. The Dashing theme is also now included in both our Ultimate Bundle and Business Bundle.
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.
Dress up your desktop
With such a stunning theme we feel you should have a dapper desktop as well. Check out our latest, free desktop wallpaper for the release of our Dashing theme!
Introducing Pipe Dream
Pipe Dream is a great new theme for RapidWeaver that can be both fun and professional. Its clean look is great for designing a blog, small business site, portfolio, and much more. This theme makes it easy to create a simply brilliant looking site in no time at all!
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 as well as check out the live preview site and walk-thru video.
Pipe Dream offers
• 3 Sidebar settings
• 4 Stylish, fun pipe graphics
• 15 Header options
• 3 Header alignments
• 10 Highly polished menu bar styles
• 2 Web page base styles
• 2 Breadcrumb bar options
• 4 Title and slogan font choices
Pipe Dream 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:
• Site background
• Content background
• Content text
• Links
• Title
• Slogan
• Header background
Learn more over on Pipe Dream’s product page.
Dress up
We’ve added a hot, new desktop to the wallpapers page for Pipe Dream.
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.
Introducing 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 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.
Dive in, save some cash [Updated]
Before we get to the sale I’d first like to introduce you to our latest theme — Aqua.
Good to the last drop!
It offers a huge variety of backgrounds, background overlays, headers, and much more. Aqua also features our first theme to have a split navigation.
I won’t ramble on here, instead jump on over to the product page to get a look at the new theme and to learn so much more! You can also check out a live preview site, featuring Aqua, as well as walk-thru videos.
Save a bundle!
We often get requests for a bundle of themes that includes every theme we sell. So, for a short time we will be offering a bundle that includes each and every theme that we currently sell, including our latest offering, Aqua.
Normally a bundle of this size would run well over $225.
Not for the next 3 days though!
You can get all of our themes in the Extreme Bundle promo for only $54.95. No, really. When the promotion ends, so does the bundle. We won’t be offering the bundle for sale after the countdown clock expires.
Check it out and hurry and get yours today.
Update:
We had a problem overnight (early Sunday morning) where the Extreme Bundle became unavailable for purchase via e-junkie’s servers. It has no been remedied and the bundle is available once again. Since it was offline for some time, and I received a lot of emails regarding it, I have extended the bundle for another 24 hours. I am sorry if this caused any one any sort of inconvenience.
Other new additions
Here are a couple of the other things we’ve added today.
• A Mac desktop featuring our Aqua icon
• An iPhone wallpaper featuring our Aqua icon
• New help and walk-thru videos
• Some new additions to our portfolio page, including Stacks, Partitions and Comic Zeal
Float on
Beautiful and fluffy
Float is a light, airy design that offers you a classy choice for designing your website. This RapidWeaver theme packs a lot of options. It is a theme that is perfect for creating a website for a small business, portfolio, blog, photo album and more.
Backgrounds & headers
Sidebar
Find it... in style
Float incorporates a very stylish search feature into its menu bar. When a visitor to your site clicks the magnifying glass located on the right-hand side of the menu bar a search field will float up and allow them to use Google to search your site.
Stylish navigation
One of the main highlights of the Float theme is its beautiful floating menu bar. It allows users to navigate your site in style. In setting up your site with RapidWeaver, and our Float theme, you have a wide variety of options available to you.
Float allows you to:
• Change the font style and size
• Modify the background of the selected items
• Change the division lines between menu items
Float offers four fonts to choose from in the menu. It also gives you the option of three font sizes.
When changing the current selected item's appearance you have eight different options.
We've also provided five different menu divider lines.
There’s a lot more to Float, so be sure to checkout the product page.
New theme: Gallery
Gallery is a stylish, classy theme with a professional touch. A perfect theme for a small business, portfolio, blog, application site and much more.
This theme provides a very large number of theme variations and options for customization.
The basics
Here's a quick rundown of our Gallery theme's variations. More details are covered on the product page.
• Header type
• Content width
• Sidebar location
• Sidebar border
• Sidebar shine
• Sidebar backgrounds
• Site search toggle
• Site title shadow
• Site title size
• Site slogan size
• Menu font size
• Blog post spacing
• Footer divider
Color Variations
• Body background
• Site title
• Site slogan
• Links
• Body font
• Sidebar font
• Sidebar title
• Blog title
• File sharing background
• Sidebar border
• Menu bar - Unselected
• Menu bar - Selected
• Menu bar - Hover
Headers
More information
There is a lot more to learn about our new Gallery theme. Hop on over to the product page and read all about the theme, as well as check out the live preview site and the walk-thru video.
Freebies
RapidWeaver allows you to display EXIF information for each of your photographs. Inspired by MultiTheme's PageMix theme we have created our own set of icons to dress up the EXIF information in the Gallery theme. We thought it might be nice to offer these icons up to everyone as a free download. You can get them at our sister site Icon Lab. Feel free to use them on your web site, in your application, blog, RapidWeaver theme, or for whatever other use you can think up!
A tasty set of updates, new theme
I'll cover some of the new areas of the site and new theme below. I would love to hear your thoughts on the new site as well and if there are any areas where you think we could improve upon it.
Before I jump into the site redesign, I’d like to introduce you to our latest theme, Candy—
Mmmm... tasty!
Candy is a highly flexible, super stylish RapidWeaver theme, with a gooey, tasty center.
OK, maybe it doesn't have a gooey center, but it is a theme that is perfect for creating a website for a small business, portfolio, blog, photo album and much more.
Candy offers 38 built-in headers, some great sidebar features and more. Drop by the product page to get an in-depth list of all that Candy has to offer.
You can also checkout a live preview site to see it in action.
We're also offering some add-on headers for this new theme, so be sure to check out our new Extras section.
A new home
Our new site features not only an updated look, but also updated content. Our landing page has been further simplified and our interior pages have been expanded. All of our theme product pages were updated to be more stylish and to add more detailed descriptions of the themes as well as extra screenshots.
We've also updated our Help Desk to be more friendly and easy to use.
More goodies
We've also added a new portfolio section showcasing some of our custom work for clients.
A work in progress
While we're pretty satisfied with the new site, we're always looking for your feedback on how it can be better. If you think of something we should add to the site or something we don't need, or just a better way to do it, let me know via our contact form.
Freebies
Along with adding a new theme to the site we've also taken one of our more popular, classic themes and made it completely free. If you don't already own it, stop by the Ribbon page and download it today.
We’ve also made our Carousel and Accordion extras completely free as well.
Too much goodness
We've simply added too much to the site to mention it all here, whether it is just a case of refining a page, giving more description, or adding new icons. Enjoy the new site. Share it with all of your friends, whether they're RapidWeaver users or not.
Sign up, get discounts
Don’t forget that we have a great newsletter. Each time we send out our newsletter to subscribers, we include a discount or two. So sign up. It’s free and you get discounts on themes, extras and more. Doesn’t get much better, huh?