Float theme update v1.5
(Version 1.5 - Updated on January 14, 2010)
• Fixes bug where the menu font defaults back to Lucida Grande for navigation links that have been visited. This update ensures that visited links do not change fonts.
This update is suggested for Float theme owners using other fonts aside from the default theme font in the navigation. This updater is not needed for users who purchase this theme after January 14, 2010.
This update also contains all of the fixes that were made in the Float v1.2 through v1.4 updates as well.
Internal theme files updated are:
index.hmtl, styles.css, theme.plist, colors.css, as well as these files in the css>fonts folder: menu_georgia.css, menu_helv.css, menu_lucida.css, menu_palatino.css
Float theme update v1.4
(Version 1.4 - Updated on May 20, 2009)
• Fixes bug with site title where letters with descenders (ex: p, g, q, j, etc) were cut off on the bottom. This problem only showed up in Internet Explorer 6.
• Removes errant reference to an image file in the blockquote CSS styling.
• Removes errant reference to an image file in the navigation CSS.
This update is suggested for all Float theme owners. This updater is not needed for users who purchase this theme after May 20, 2009.
This update also contains all of the fixes that were made in the Float v1.2 and v1.3 updates.
Internal theme files updated are:
index.hmtl, styles.css, theme.plist, colors.css
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.
Notebook Updater v1.1
We're offering an updater application to automatically correct this 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 Notebook theme customers.
• Updates color picker to fix menu item color. A bug prevented users from selecting the color of the menu text via the built-in color picker. This update corrects that problem.
You can download the updater here.
Save some dough
If you’re not a Notebook user this is your chance to purchase the theme and save a couple bucks in the process. Use the discount code below during checkout to save $2 on your purchase of the Notebook theme:
WRITEOFF
This discount expires on Friday May 8, 2008, so don’t wait too long to get your copy.
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
RapidWeaver 4.0 is here!
Realmac Software released RapidWeaver 4.0 today. The update is a free upgrade for RapidWeaver users and is a major release.
It has been a long time in the making. When I began beta testing the gem I was taken aback! Its new interface is clean, easy to use and intuitive. And not to mention beautiful.
For those not familiar with RapidWeaver
Sounds pretty easy, huh? It really is. Drop by the RMS site and download your copy today.
Also, we have upgrade our RW themes to be 4.0 compatible. While the theme upgrades are minor for this version, they're done and out of the way, nonetheless.
In search of
Well, you're in luck. Josh Lockhart has just released RapidSearch.
Here's a snippet from his site about the plug-in:
Rapidweaver users have been asking for an easy website search solution that will display search results within their own website.... RapidSearch [is] a painfully simple solution that will search your website without redirecting to a third party search engine. Now your website visitors can search your site and view the results, all without leaving your website!
The plug-in does require a few things that some Rapidweaver users may not have available to them if you're hosting your site on .Mac. Be sure you have the following, and that your site is indexed by Yahoo!:
• Requires PHP (4 or 5) with CURL support
• Limited to 5000 queries per IP per 24 hours
• Requires Rapidweaver v3.5.1 (Build 264) or higher
So far I am liking this plug-in. My only complaint is that to this point is that at times Yahoo! takes a good deal of time to dish out results, leaving it as if the site is hung. Perhaps some sort of waiting/processing indicator would help? GoDaddy's servers had poor PHP support, which was causing delays is my searches. This has been fixed thanks to my transfer to DreamHost. Overall though,it is added to our must have list of plug-ins.