All that's fit to print
September 11, 2008 12:34 AM
| elixir
Next time you're sipping your latte and browsing your local bookstore be sure to look us up. We're currently being featured in Peppin Press' 'Web Design Index by Content 03.' (Take a look below). We're also due to be featured (both elixir and CSStux) in the upcoming Design Meltdown book 'The Web Designer's Idea Book.'






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New theme: Gallery
September 4, 2008 02:26 PM
| Themes
A work of art!
This new theme has been in the works for quite some time. We put a lot of love into this one, and I hope that it shows.
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 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
Our Gallery theme makes use of RapidWeaver's Color Picker, allowing you to very easily change the appearance of your site with a couple clicks of the mouse. You can edit these parts of the theme with the color picker:
• 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
Our Gallery theme has a huge selection of page headers. Thirty to be exact.
They range from stylish wood backgrounds to metal, patterned fabrics, gradients and many more.
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!
Some random, useful stuff
September 3, 2008 06:14 PM
| Web Design
I've run across some useful, new sites lately that have been a big help in web design and development. I thought it might be helpful to everyone if I listed some of these new finds for everyone. I've also thrown in some old favorites as well. Hopefully you'll find them useful.
Feel free to let everyone know about your favorites (whether they're on the list or not) in the comments below.
BgPatterns
A great site for creating semi-custom, tiled background patterns. It allows a lot of freedom in creating your background pattern and is simple and straightforward to use.
Some other great background pattern sites include: Stripe Generator, bgMaker, Pattern 4 U
Colour Lovers
This site hosts a huge selection of color swatches and groupings. It also provides a look at color trends on the web. The site's forums section is packed with color gurus.
Some other great color related sites: kuler, Color Schemer
Feel free to let everyone know about your favorites (whether they're on the list or not) in the comments below.
BgPatterns
A great site for creating semi-custom, tiled background patterns. It allows a lot of freedom in creating your background pattern and is simple and straightforward to use.
Some other great background pattern sites include: Stripe Generator, bgMaker, Pattern 4 U
Colour Lovers
This site hosts a huge selection of color swatches and groupings. It also provides a look at color trends on the web. The site's forums section is packed with color gurus.
Some other great color related sites: kuler, Color Schemer
With a heavy heart
August 26, 2008 01:46 AM
| Personal
I will be away for a few days coming up and wanted to give everyone a heads up in case I am not as quick as usual in responding to e-mails and such.
Liz and I will be traveling to Pennsylvania Wednesday to attend her grandmother's funeral. She passed away this past Saturday, August 23. I wish that I'd had the opportunity to meet and get to know her as I've heard wonderful stories about her. Liz and I had talked about visiting her on a few different occasions, but we never got the opportunity to do so, which makes me sad. It also saddens me immensely to see Liz and her family so filled with sadness over their loss.
With my father having only passed away last December (also on the 23rd) I'd hoped that there would not be such pain and sorrow in either of our families for some time to come.
We will return from our trip on Friday, so by the weekend or early next week I should be able to catch up on e-mail correspondence. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
Liz and I will be traveling to Pennsylvania Wednesday to attend her grandmother's funeral. She passed away this past Saturday, August 23. I wish that I'd had the opportunity to meet and get to know her as I've heard wonderful stories about her. Liz and I had talked about visiting her on a few different occasions, but we never got the opportunity to do so, which makes me sad. It also saddens me immensely to see Liz and her family so filled with sadness over their loss.
With my father having only passed away last December (also on the 23rd) I'd hoped that there would not be such pain and sorrow in either of our families for some time to come.
We will return from our trip on Friday, so by the weekend or early next week I should be able to catch up on e-mail correspondence. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
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