Tragic news

I read in my RSS reader this morning some terrible news that one of our own has suffered a great, unimaginable loss. Ron Shiver, father of Adam Shiver of Elixir Graphics, passed away a few days before Christmas. He was 52, right around the age of my own parents; so sudden and unexpected. I am at a loss for words for anything meaningful to say but I am reminded of a quote said to me when my grandfather passed on, one which I was able to find again:

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

~Marcel Proust

If you wish to extend your sympathy to Adam, I've set up a thread on the RapidWeaver Support forum here.

Merry Christmas

I just wanted to pop in quickly and wish all of you a very merry Christmas and all the best for the holiday season. I've been through various festivities already and am heading to another in a few short hours. I fear they are going to have to roll back to my desk with a stick at the end of the holidays... I'm more stuffed than the turkey! All the best and have a happy New Year!

Site of the Week 17

Using our RapidWeaver theme, bloop!, AZ Celebrity Properties shows that RapidWeaver is capable of professional, business oriented sites.

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

THEME UPDATE: bloop! r3 fixes external link issue

We've replaced a windows.onload event with an addLoadEvent to combat the conflict bloop! was having with the built-in RapidWeaver javascript that was preventing an external style link from opening in a new window. This update only affects the index.html template and the theme plist. All other settings should be unaffected.

Download the update installer here.

Site of the Week 16

A true testament to the international appeal of RapidWeaver is that I can't actually read half the sites that get submitted to me. This is one of those sites, but I absolutely love it.

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

THEME UPDATE: edGy r3 fixes IE7 bug

Our RapidWeaver theme, edGy, has been updated to fix a minor rendering issue experienced in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). The bug caused the title and slogan to be misplaced as had the logo disappear into nowhere land.

Download the update installer and patch your version in just a few clicks. This update applies to all edGy themes purchased after December 2, 2007 and before December 11, 2007.

Affiliate payments sent

Join our Affiliate Program!

We sent out our first affiliate payments yesterday for the month of November. Please let me know if you did not get recieve a payment you thought was owed to you.

Not already registered as a seyDesign affiliate? You can now earn money by driving traffic our way. If the traffic you send us results in a successful sale, we pay you 25% of the total transaction.

Here's what you do:

• Sign up to be one of our affiliates at E-Junkie.
• Place some nifty code on your site.
• Get some of the traffic on your site to come our way and get 25% of all successful sales!
• You get paid between the 7th and 15th day of the following month.

E-Junkie allows you to keep track of all your important stats and once a month you get paid! It doesn't get any easier than that does it? Didn't think so.

Do you Weave with RapidWeaver?

If so you'll be interested to know that we have brought back RapidWeaved.com, the RapidWeaver showcase site for RapidWeaver users, by RapidWeaver users. It's not 100% ready yet, for that we need your submissions first. So if you have a site made with RapidWeaver go to RapidWeaved.com and submit your site.

I love RapidWeaver

I am sure by now that you could just make such an assumption about us but it has to be said; I LOVE RAPIDWEAVER. As I am sure you recall we just celebrated our second birthday as one of RapidWeavers premier theme developers, by having a birthday sale (which has since ended, sadly). As a general rule a company tends to break even on sales, moving more units but at a discounted price. Usually it's just to draw more people in, get more eyes on your site and product and raise consumer awareness of who you are. In our case we just wanted to give a little something back to the RapidWeaver community for putting up with us for two years.

This sale was different somehow. For some reason it struck a chord with you guys/gals. I don't know whether it was a show of support, or the release of the new theme, or the time of year, or what... But your support in this sale saw us move approximately 7.5 times the number of themes in any given 3 day period than we have ever moved before! I am not one to brag... I am never one to brag... but that is a serious number of themes pushed out in a very short period of time!

For what ever reason this all came about, I have only you, the RapidWeaver community, to thank for it. So in the spirit of the fast approaching holiday season, thank you! And I mean that with every pixel of my heart.

Theme Update: edGy for RapidWeaver 3.6

The seyDoggy edGy theme is now ready for RapidWeaver 3.6 with a whole bunch of great new features like color picker (everywhere and everything), RWmultitool ready and now multiple widths! Check out edGy now and see what we're so excited about.

Birthday Sale

Today is seyDesigns 2nd Birthday! 2 years flying the seyDesign flag! 2 years of innovation, 2 years of continual improvement, 2 years of fresh ideas and new features. We can't begin to tell you how honored we are to still be around and to be recognized as one of the premier theme developers. 2 years ago there weren't many of us around, the market consisted of only a handful of us such as RWT (then owned by Dave Cantu), Med Designs, BlueBall and New Ending Studios. Now the field has grown to include the likes of Pioneer themes, Elixir, ADHD, Vortex, Multithemes, Bonsai, Varsis, RapidIdeas, THEME WEAVER, Butella, 2bitoperation, and the list goes on.

I want to thank all theme developers for our continual support of each other, our collaborations and our many exchanges. I want to thank all of our customers for believing in us and I want to thank the entire RapidWeaver community for being the greatest bunch of people on the planet.

In appreciation to all of you, seyDesign is having a 50% off appreciation sale for the next two days. Enter the code "birthday" to your cart and automatically get 50% off everything in the store. The sale ends at midnight on December 3rd.

The big 400!

Our members list has reached new heights today; 400 legitimate, reachable members! Sure we have come close in the past but with each new mailing that goes out, I have to delete a half dozen names from the list, ones that get bounced, fail or otherwise just don't exist. But having recently cleaned the list and with a few new submissions today, we are finally in the position to confidently boast our 400th member! Yeah! You can sign up for member discounts on RapidWeaver themes too by going to our member signup page.

Site of the Week 15

We keep seeing wonderful uses of our Tuo theme for RapidWeaver pop up time and time again, and this site is no exception. Podium Arts Communications flaunts a powerful and effective website getting their message across clearly and concisely.

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

Keeping you on the edGe!

A very new spin on an old theme is due to arrive soon. We are talking about edGy, which is soon to see a dramatic update. Not only will it have the full RapidWeaver 3.6 feature set, including color picker options, but it will have many new features that will make this new version infinitely more versatile than the original version. I don't want to give away too much at this point, but one of edGy's main drawbacks was it's inflexible size which many found too narrow... you can expect that to change in the new version. Stay tuned.

New snippet: 3 column layout

WHAT IS "3 column layout"?

"3 column layout" is exactly what it sounds like, it allows you to insert 3 columns directly into your Styled text page, HTML page, Blocks page, ect... Where ever you have room to put 3 columns you can easy add this snippet. Heck, you can even put this in your sidebar, footer or any place in RapidWeaver that allows you to enter text. Want 4 columns? Leave your sidebar on. There really is no limit to the way's you can play with this code.

HOW TO INSTALL

To install "3 column layout", double click the rwsnippet or drag and drop the file into ~/Library/Application Support/RapidWeaver/Snippets.

HOW TO USE "3 column layout"

Find "3 column layout" in your snippet panel (cmd+5 or View > Show Snippets), select it and drag it into your project. If you are using this snippet in any styled text area (Styled text, Columns, Blocks, Carousel, Accordion, Lockdown, Blog, RapidBlog, FAQ Maker, etc...), you need to select the snippet code from beginning to end and type cmd+period or Format > Ignore Formatting.

Now all that's left to do is replace the Lorem Ipsum text and headers with your own content.

Download "3 column layout" here

New cart discount code

There are three questions we get a lot

1. Do you sell theme bundles?
2. Do you have just one discount code I can use instead of having one for each theme?
3. Do I get a discount if I buy all your themes?

Well now the answer to all three is now YES... well sort of. We now have cart discount code that you can apply to anything you purchase; so whether it's one RapidWeaver theme, four themes, or all themes you can get 20% off no matter what. So make your own bundle and get 20% off.

To get your discount code, sign up to be a seyDesign member.

Site of the Week 14

I should start calling this site of the month for all the time (or lack thereof) I have had lately. This site would be one of the reasons I have been so quite lately. It's kept me busy figuring out the best storefront options and what not. So I am proud to show off Torudog.com as this site #14 in our site of the week category. Toru - Rock your dogs world, is all about rock star style for dogs and selling what they preach. I had a lot of fun working on this project. It really opened my eyes to an industry I had not previously known existed.

Don't for get to vote for Torudog.com on DesignSnack!

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

New Theme: Varsis Studio Simplistic

Our good friend Chris at Varsis Studio has released a brand new theme, Simplistic, a full featured RapidWeaver 3.6 theme. Some of Simplistics features include;

• 10 RWmultitool ready headers
• Title position
• Sidebar position
• Custom colors
• Nav button spacing
• Variable width
• Font selection

The best part is, seyDesign has got you a very special discount code. Sign up to be a seyDesign member and get $3.00 off Varsis Studios Simplistic.

What's the true cost of "Free"?

I read an interesting article this morning by Gary at Rapid Weaver Themes . com, one of my colleagues in thie RapidWeaver theme game. It addresses the latest influx of "Free" themes available today and what the cost of "Free" actually is.

It's a good read and worth checking out.

It's all over but the cryin'

Like all other good things, this good thing has come to an end. I hope you all enjoyed our Crazy Sale. It was a last minute, spur of the moment thing, just to say thanks to the wonderful RapidWeaver community. Thank you. Until next time...

It's the seyDesign Crazy Sale!

For the next 6 hours (or until 10:30 pm EST) everything in the seyDesign store is 50% off! Just apply the discount code crazysale11107 to your shopping cart and get 50% of your entire purchase!

Check out the theme store now, Click Here.

shhhh... I think there is a sale coming up.

You didn't hear this from me, but someone high up in the seyDoggy organization has leaked a little secret; there is going to be an outrageous 6 hour sale on all seyDesign themes. I can't say when but I know it's soon. Shhhhh...

The site of the week will return

I know it has been a few weeks since we posted a site of the week. Honestly we have just run out of time. So to all those who have submitted and are waiting to if their sites made it or not, please be patient, we will get to each and everyone of you as soon as we can.

New search function; want to know how?

Some of may have noticed the new site search feature on our site and since it's not built in to RapidWeaver, you might have wondered how we did that. Well it's funny you should ask, because I tell all in a recent article on RW Updates. Go check it out and maybe give it a try yourself.

Earn money with seyDesign!

Join our Affiliate Program!

Like some of our other well respected colleagues, we have toyed with the idea of offering a rewards program for loyal and enthusiastic seyDesign customers. You can now earn money by driving traffic our way. If the traffic you send us results in a successful sale, we pay you 25% of the total transaction.

Here's what you do:

• Sign up to be one of our affiliates at E-Junkie.
• Place some nifty code on your site.
• Get some of the traffic on your site to come our way and get 25% of all successful sales!

E-Junkie allows you to keep track of all your important stats and once a month you get paid! It doesn't get any easier than that does it? Didn't think so.

New RapidWeaver tip

It's been a nagging question for many RapidWeaver users out there, how to insert a link into the sidebar. Over at RW Updates you'll find a great new tip to help you solve this mystery once and for all. Check it out here!

badNas for RapidWever 3.6

At long last we proudly present you with badNas for RapidWeaver 3.6. We went all out on this upgrade and made it a fully featured RapidWeaver 3.6 theme with color picker options and all!

And that's not all; we did got rid of the messy way adding custom headers and made all the headers editable with the included RWmultitool Lite. No more code for this theme!

Head over to the information pages for all the details and updates.

Special offer for THEME 007

THEME WEAVER has recently launched their new THEME 007 which I am proud to have had a part in developing. We have just sent out a newsletter to all seyDesign members with a special offer we were able to extend from THEME WEAVER. Members can get $3.00 off the purchase price of THEME 007 with our special discount code but you have to be a member to get it.

To learn more about THEME 007: http://www.theme-weaver....theme-007.html
To register for this offer: http://www.seydesign.com/support/membership/index.php

We're back

We at seyDesign are well rested and back on the horse after a glorious, uncharacteristically warm Thanks Giving long weekend. My wife and I took the kids to the Oktoberfest Parade (it's a Kitchener thing) for which we normally have to dress in warm clothes and winter coats and bring hot chocolate and blankets to keep warm. This year we were looking for ways to keep cool, dressed in our shorts and T's wearing sunscreen and looking for ways to get shelter from the beaming sun!

Anyhow, we are refreshed and ready to tackle more RapidWeaver goodness in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.

We feast for a day

Happy Thanks Giving to all those in Canada. We are closed for the day to celebrate Thanks Giving with all of our friends and family. We'll be back to our regular hours of operation on Tuesday and get to some of your support questions. Until then, Chris and I are happily stuffing our faces with turkey and cranberry sauce. Take care and Happy Thanks Giving.

Site of the week #13

Again, I can't really say much about this site except it looks cool and that it probably has a lot to do with Apple computers, software and whatnot. The site uses our Creamy Wide theme for RapidWeaver 3.6 by Varsis Studio.

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

RW Updates now offers an RSS Feed

The Daily Digest at RW Updates now offers an RSS Feed. Now you can subscribe to the home page feed and pull in all the news from your favorite RapidWeaver developers. Keeping up with theme updates and new developments has never been easier. To subscribe (until buttons get made) simply click the blue RSS button in the address bar of the Daily Digest page of RW Updates.

Site of the week #12

There is not much I can say about this site... translators didn't make much sense. The best I can figure, it's a camping directory for the Maibeek area of the Netherlands, but I really can't be sure. Anyone who knows can post a comment with more description. Or go to Camping de Maibeek for more information.

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

RW Updates needs your vote

RW Updates, the recently launched RapidWeaver developer digest has been temporarily listed on Design Snack. In order to achieve permanent status they need your votes. Head over to this page cast you votes and comments for RW Updates.

New RapidWeaver resource launched today

A new site by seyDoggy called RW Updates has been launched today. The site, a daily digest of RapidWeaver developer news, is aimed at power RapidWeaver users looking to cut to the chase and get development news on theme and plugin updates, new products, new snippets and new smart blocks right from the developers mouths.

RW Updates allows visitor to quickly skim through what's been posted by their favorite RapidWeaver developers, Realmac Software and also the Add-ons section of the Realmac Software site without having to wade through countless forum posts, countless feeds and surf countless sites. RW Updates gives you a light recap of what's new, quick and easy.

Something wicked this way comes

There is a new RapidWeaver resource on the horizon, one that will make many power RapidWeaver users happy. seyDoggy saw a need for some "consolidation" in the information streams in order for RapidWeaver users to keep up to speed with what is going on in the RapidWeaver community. This consolidation process has led to some neat new technologies that we have released here recently, that were a byproduct of what seyDoggy had going on in the background. Look for an official announcement later today.

Showcasing the Showcasers

Here is a novel concept; it's a new css showcase site, sort of, a little tongue in check though:"Most of their names can be resumed to "CSS" followed by another word that smells tasty, it's kind of confusing I think. So why not showcase these showcases?"

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New feed

We have updated our RSS feed over to Feedburner. If you are currently subscribed to our old feed URL, it will still work (I think) but it would be very helpful to us if you moved over and subscribed to our new RSS feed. Thank you very much.

badNas for RapidWeaver 3.6 is coming soon!

Many have been asking and many have been waiting very patiently for the update of badNas to RapidWeaver 3.6 standards. Well the wait is almost over. I have been squeezing in a little work here and there on it during little breaks from custom themes and sites. I am almost complete and am just waiting to finish the demo site and some theme styles etc... so it won't be long now. Thanks for your patience!

Realmac Software Release RapidWeaver 3.6.3

Brighton, England - September 19th, 2007 - Realmac Software today announced an update to RapidWeaver, its award-winning website creation application for Mac OS X.

RapidWeaver 3.6.3 sees numerous improvements to the application, including:

• Greatly improved memory usage when exporting websites
• Fixed an issue with using the bold and colour attributes on a string
• Fixed some issues with the main view displaying incorrectly
• Option-Double Clicking on photos now opens the files in a Photo Album

along with various other fixes and enhancements.

For an in-depth list of new features please visit: http://www.realmacsoftware.com/ or the new http://iloverapidweaver.com/ website, designed by Realmac Software to evangelize RapidWeaver on the web. Pricing & Availability
RapidWeaver 3.6.3 is a free upgrade for registered 3.6 users, and is priced at $49 for new users and just $25 for users of earlier versions. RapidWeaver 3.6.3 is available to download and buy from today.

System requirements
RapidWeaver is a Universal Binary, requiring Mac OS X v10.4.3 or later. A free trial copy of RapidWeaver can be downloaded from: http://www.realmacsoftware.com/

Site of the week #11

Yes I am aware that I am a full week late on this installment. My apologies. This weeks site comes to us from Albert Kinng, renowned DJ of Mega 98.1 FM WNUE, Orlando's #1 Hispanic Radio Station, and author of his own personal site AlbertKinng.com which uses our Tuo RapidWeaver theme. Now truth be told, I can't actually read a word on his site but it does look like fun with some fun videos and what not. Take a trip over to AlbertKinng.com and see for yourself.

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

Show Recent Posts 2, a RapidWeaver snippet

The "Show Recent Posts 2" snippet is a cute little implementation of SimplePie RSS parser designed with RapidWeaver in mind. "Show Recent Posts 2" allows you to do just that, show your most recent blog posts on any other page (aside from you blog page of course), while maintaining some of your blogs original formating. This version also includes the function for controlling the length of the posts. "Show Recent Posts 2" can be used in your main content area, in your sidebar, or where ever you think it would fit.

Y

ou can get a copy here:
showrecentposts2.zip

Our RapidWeaver Snippet, "Show Recent Posts" has been updated

After a lengthy walk through with a fellow RapidWeaver user trying to set up a site our recent RapidWeaver snippet, "Show Recent Posts", it became painfully clear to me that I take a great deal of web stuff for granted. So I have modified the commenting in the code snippet to answer a few good questions you might have and I have also modified the README file to reflect those new instructions. The code has stayed the same, just the instructions have improved.

Site of the week #10

Marten Claridge says, "After ten years lost in the wilderness of gainful employment I am now returning to my publishing roots..." I can't begin to tell you how proud we are to have Marten Claridge using our very popular Tuo theme for RapidWeaver. For this reason his site is our site of the week.

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

I love E-Junkie!

There is seriously no better service out there for shopping cart functions the E-Junkie. They improve the features on an ongoing and regular basis. The customer service is incredible and the perks for your loyalty are fantastic.

If you doubt E-Junkies appeal, just take a look at the web celebs that E-Junkie can boast as their clients (not to mention all of the familiar faces from around RapidWeaver).

Show Recent Posts, a RapidWeaver snippet

The "Show Recent Posts" snippet is a cute little implementation of SimplePie RSS parser designed with RapidWeaver in mind. "Show Recent Posts" allows you to do just that, show your most recent blog posts on any other page (aside from you blog page of course), while maintaining some of your blogs original formating. "Show Recent Posts" can be used in your main content area, in your sidebar, or where ever you think it would fit.

It'll be in the add-ons list soon, but for those wanting to get a jump on playing with this little guy (and testing to see that it works on more than just my own site), you can get a copy here:
showrecentposts.zip

NEW PLUGIN: FAQ Maker

Loghound has released a new RapidWeaver plugin, FAQ Maker, which help users create FAQ pages with great ease. Much like using a blog, FAQ maker allows you to add new entries with the question and the answer, and FAQ Maker takes care of the linking, etc... Sporting one seyDoggy's flashy icons, FAQ Maker is sure to become the a must-have tool in every developers tool box.

Minor update for our bloop! RapidWeaver theme

We noticed today that bloop! wasn't validating properly (very odd for us). We took a peek into the code and found the culprit to be a misspelled class in the HTML template file (it read "calss" instead of "class"). Anyhow, we've squashed this little nuisance and posted the update here. You can download the patch installer and it will take care of all this for you.

Get your patch installer here.

bloop! for RapidWeaver 3.6

It's bloop!

A surprisingly simple theme for RapidWeaver 3.6

It's simple, light and fun. Not to be taken seriously, and not intended to overwhelm you. It just a nice and easy to use, easy to read theme for RapidWeaver 3.6.

Headers bloop! has 5 headers to mix and match. Use RWmultitool Lite (included) to "drag 'n drop" you own images right into the theme.

Color picker There are just enough items to color with RapidWeaver's color picker, to leave you feeling in control.

Plus bloop! has multiple width option, CurvyCorners to round the corners or your images, and much more! Learn more...

Site of the week #9

Merrifield Photography consists of Adam (of seyDoggy fame) and Tanya Merrifield, a husband and wife team that met 15 years ago in a highschool photography class. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, they have been known to take their photography where needed, like Hamilton, Port Elgin, Mississauga and Toronto.

Big into contributing back to the photography community, many articles can be found on the site with tips on both photography and photoshop.

Merrifield Photography uses a custom designed RapidWeaver theme made by seyDoggy.

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

Site of the week #8

She calls herself JAGS, a spunky young woman with a pension for geekery and glamour, has her own site, You Blog Like A Girl. Using a custom theme made for her by seyDoggy, JAGS blogs about beauty products, gadgets, broadway and web celebs.

With a fun, easy going style of writing, we think she is going to be the one to watch this fall.

Site of the week #7

Spark strives to be the world’s leading manufacturer of mobile advertising vehicles and accessories. They are committed to providing unique mobile advertising products and exceptional service, while treating their customers with steadfast integrity.

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

dogPress Important Update

A seyDesign user with a keen eye noticed a troublesome rendering issue when view the dogPress theme for RapidWeaver 3.6 in Internet Explorer 7. We have patched the issue and packaged the solution up in a patch installer found in the dogPress update section. Download and and run the installer to bring dogPress up to full IE7 compatibility.

Site of the week #6

{ **EDIT** at the time of publishing, Dan Alban did in fact use the dogPress theme and RapidWeaver to make his site, however, Dan has since switched to iWeb. }

Maybe to you and me, the average Joe Schmoe, the name Dan Alban doesn't mean much, but to someone entrenched in the latest LightWave version 9 would be hanging on Dans every word in his latest book, Inside LightWave V9. Dan is an accomplished author with books on such subjects as digital photography for 3d animation, Luxolgy and of course a multitude of books on LightWave, an industry standard 3D animation rendering software used in countless productions on both television and the big screen.

Dan is also a 3D animator which one can only assume, is why he's such an expert on LightWave. I sure hope Dan knows about the latest version of dogPress for RapidWeaver 3.6. His 3D images could now become his headers. ;)

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

The Mother ship

Sometimes we don't feel it's right to always promote every last post, thought and idea had by any site that is affiliated with us or, more to the point, affiliated with seyDoggy. That's why, at long last, seyDoggy has their own blog, separate and apart from this, our seyDesign blog.

This allows us to stay focussed more on RapidWeaver and WordPress related topics here and not dilute the airwaves, as it were, with happenings at all our other on-line conquests. If you are interested in keeping tabs with all the other pet projects we manage, head over to our mother ship, seyDoggy.com and subscribe to their rss feed.

dogPress for RapidWeaver 3.6

At long last we proudly present you with dogPress for RapidWeaver 3.6. We went all out on this upgrade and made it a fully featured RapidWeaver 3.6 theme with color picker options and all!

And that's not all; we did got rid of the messy way adding custom headers and made all the headers editable with the included RWmultitool Lite. No more code for this theme!

Head over to the information pages for all the details and updates.

RapidWeaver 3.6.2 is out!

A new version of RapidWeaver from Realmac Software is out today! Numerous new features, including Aperture drag-and-drop photo support and more.

So, what's new in RapidWeaver 3.6.2?

• • Aperture Support in the iMedia BrowserDynamic
• • PHP Sidebar option for the blog plugin
• • Sidebar is now a fully features styled text area
• • The link panel now supports linking to tags and categories from Blogs
• • Master Styles can now be managed from the Page Inspector
• •A smorgasbord of bug fixes
• • And much, much more!

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Site of the week #5

This is an old theme but it just goes to show you how versatile some of the older stuff was. The Webfactory uses our old abLe theme (discontinued) to deliver their business message. It's a clean, classic look that stands the test of time.

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

Pathfinder does it all

Ever get tired of the Finder in OS X? Find it a little limiting? nutMac.com has just published an article about the many great features of Pathfinder from cocoatech. Pathfinder is a total, integrated file management system that allows you not only to browse you files, but know everything about them, edit them, store them, view them, move them...If you are looking for a better Finder, give this article a read and give Pathfinder a try.

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Merrifield Photography launches with a hot new design.

Merrifield Photography has been around for a while but the now have a new site design that looks pretty fantastic.

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Site of the week #4

This week we bring you Edmund Rice International, a powerful and moving site raising awareness for such issues as poverty, hunger, human rights and environmental change.

Edmund Rice International is a non-govermental organisation committed to advocacy on behalf of children and young people who are marginalised because of poverty, legal status, environmental degradation or adult wars. It is sponsored by the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Congregation of Presentation Brothers. It is a partner organisation with Franciscans International in Geneva.

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

ButtonBuilder is Back!

ButtonBuilder is back! Now free and open source, AND with it's own new sexy website. This is the app that I first knew Realmac Software for. Back in the day when I was hand coding every site I made I was looking for a little app to take the tedious job of making web buttons off my hands. That's when I found ButtonBuilder and soon began a long and lasting working relationship with Realmac Software.

Hats off to the the boys at Realmac Software and RealmacForge for bringing this little gem back to the center stage!

Digg it!

waVy contest winner announced!

We are proud to announce that Andrew Lentini is our waVy iPod shuffle contest winner!

Keep it moving

I was getting a bit tired seeing the same old shots in the polaroid at the top right of the page. I've had a few ideas as to what I could put there but finally settled a site of the week screen grab rotating through with each screen refresh. It's clickable too, so when you click on the polaroid, you get taken to the site of the week index.

Now since there are only three at this time, I've had to augment the library with a few screen shots of of our theme demo pages, but at least it keeps things interesting with each visit.

To learn more about being featured as the site of the week, visit the submission page.

Introducing Creamy wide for RW 3.6

We happily present you with Creamy wide for RapidWeaver 3.6! Fully functional, fully featured, full of color-pickin' goodness. The very popular Creamy wide for RapidWeaver, designed and built by Chris from Varsis Studio can now be customized to your hearts desire with such control over colors as background, links, text, headers, titles and so much more.

To learn about these new features and more, visit the Creamy narrow information pages.

Site of the week #3

Using our popular Tuo theme, Kevin Spencer, a 5th Grade teach is responsible for this site, run.spencersrus.com, the ongoing saga of a man on a mission. Spencer hoped walking could help him memorize Bible passages. He was too distracted to read at home. So he used a Sony Walkman on long walks to help him focus. Soon, he began running. He weighed 260 pounds in the spring of 2002. By that summer, he had memorized two chapters and lost more than 80 pounds in three months. He also began a running program at Raleigh Court Elementary School during school and after school on Thursdays... Read more.

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

Site of the week #2

This week we bring you the work of a brilliant photographer (and the developer behind RapidAlbum), Scott Mackie who uses our Tuo theme to display his excellent works of art. Pop on over to www.smackie.org for a look at some of his breath taking photography.

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.

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Introducing Creamy narrow for RW 3.6

We happily present you with Creamy narrow for RapidWeaver 3.6! Fully functional, fully featured, full of color-pickin' goodness. The popular Creamy, designed and built by Chris from Varsis Studio can now be customized to your hearts desire with such control over colors as background, links, text, headers, titles and so much more.

To learn about these new features and more, visit the Creamy narrow information pages.

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Holiday Schedule

Adam of the seyDesign team will be taking some holidays starting tomorrow. Chris will still be around to answer your questions so be sure to fill out the support form for all your support needs.

This is good news for all those who still want to enter the iPod contest as I will likely not get around to updating the web site immediately on the first of the month, so chance are you'll still be able to enter for a few more days than planned.

All should be back to normal by about July 6th or so at which time we hope to have a great new update ready for you. Looking forward on the horizon, we have a number RapidWeaver themes being updated to 3.6. We also have some pretty big plans for further WordPress development. So be on the look out for some cool updates in the next few weeks or so.

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Site of the week #1

This weeks site of the week comes from Peter who brings us Coco Ralado, the web site of an energetic rhythm group. Using Creamy Wide for RapidWeaver, the site is lively, lighthearted and full of the wonderful poly-rhythms of Coco Ralado.

To have your site listed as the Site of the Week, submit it to us here.
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Less than two weeks to go!

ENTER TO WIN!

One of 2 iPod shuffles,

when you purchase our waVy theme for either RapidWeaver or WordPress. See here for details.

Technorati Tags: contest, iPod, RapidWeaver, RW 3.6, WordPress

On the front page of Design Snack!

We got some wonderful news this morning:

seyDoggy, Congratulations! The website you submitted, seyDesign, has received enough positive feedback and was moved to the more permanent Approved section of Design Snack.

Feel free to visit Design Snack and go right to the website's information page.

Thanks again,

- Design Snack

I cannot begin to tell you how proud we are, especially me, since I might with a lot of peer resistance in the development stages of my vision for this site. So if you haven't done so already, head on over to Design Snack and show your support for seyDesign.

Technorati Tags: Design Snack, seyDesign, web design

Safari 3 is not the RAM sucker it used to be!

Ahh the frustration is finally over. I got the Safari 3 beta to finally work for my (thanks to Glenn Thomas) and got updates for all my favorite browser plugins like Safari Tidy. Now is the new Safari faster? Meh... it's really hard to pinpoint a microsecond here or there, but since they tell me it is, my mind at least humors the possibility and convinces me that it is. But all of this faster nonsense aside, where I am really happy about the changes in Safari is it's use of RAM. It seams the days of 256 Mb and 500 Mb RAM sucking are gone! This is great, leaving more RAM for for the other apps that really need the extra like Photoshop on Rosetta! It didn't seem to matter how many tabs I opened or how many windows I would open, the RAM usage never climbed higher than 150 Mb (5 windows open with 10 tabs in each window), but for regular usage, RAM consumptions was steady between 70 Mb and 85 Mb. Kudos to Apple for finally addressing Safari's biggest crutch.

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Tuo r3 RapidWeaver theme update

Tuo r3 RapidWeaver theme update (Tuo r3 patch installer)

Tuo for Rapidweaver has been patched to resolve an odd rendering issue in IE6. We have also added full blown support for and png graphic inserted anywhere by the user. IE6 rendering performance has been considerably enhanced as well.

On the lighter side, we have changed the tag cloud rendering from a standard list to more of a cloud appearance in keeping with the tag “cloud” idea.

IMPORTANT!You need to install r2 prior to this install. You must also have a working copy of “seyDoggy Tuo.rwtheme” in your “~/username/Library/Application Support/RapidWeaver/” folder for this update installer to work.

Technorati Tags: RapidWeaver, RW 3.6, theme, Tuo, Update

seyDesign on Design Snack

If you like seyDesign and you like our new site, head on over to Design Snack and throw a vote our way. There are a ton of great designs out there these days and we really feel that seyDesign stands out from the crowd; fun, informal and a really comfortable place to be. I hope you can agree.

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WWDC and the amazing Safari 3

So we've seen the keynote, and we've played around and we've let all this wonderful news digest for nearly a day now. If you haven't heard (and couldn't tell by my small image here), Safari 3 public beta is now out, but further to such great news is the fact that it is available for Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Vista!

How great that would be if the uptake of Safari on Windows was so fast that we could drop support for IE6 and IE7 all together, but sadly that may never come to fruition. So what this means is, we'll continue to support the worlds most used browser, IE6, until 2014 when Microsoft themselves finally pull the plug.

What else can we do about this though? There is no reason not to help speed up the process and let Windows users know just how amazing the Internet is on Safari. So help spread the word, Digg it, blog about it, email your friends about it, tell your family about it. A web browser is the most used piece of software on a computer today, it should be the best piece of software.
Apple - Safari 3 Public Beta - Download

Technorati Tags: Apple, IE6, IE7, Safari 3, Safari on Windows

Introducing Tuo for RW 3.6

We are proud to introduce the most ambitious upgrade to

Tuo

that we have ever attempted. The minds behind seyDesign bring you Tuo for RapidWeaver 3.6, a vastly more flexible, feature rich Tuo than ever imagined before. Some of the highlights include color picker options for the background, page, side navigation box, breadcrumb bars, links, text and more.

We've also reworked how the sidebar background works (previously grey at all times). We've now made it semi transparent so that the sidebar background now adopts a shade of your page color. And what's more, you now have the option to turn the sidebar background off altogether. The breadcrumb backgrounds have also been modified (previously grey at all times). Now you can select any color you wish for the breadcrumb bars.

To learn about these new features and more, visit the

Tuo theme information page

.

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Tuo is in the shop.

At one time I thought the biggest change that the original Duo theme for RapidWeaver could ever undergo was that of the transformation from Duo to Tuo. On the inside this was true. Under the hood of Tuo was a whole new core of code. On the outside, though, the changes and advancement in features was welcome and refreshing but not radically different.

The same cannot be said for what is about to be released though. What we have coming up is the upgrade from Tuo for RapidWeaver 3.5 to Tuo for RapidWeaver 3.6 and I am here to tell you that things have changed! We listened to all of your input about what we could do to make things better. We took that input and tried everything we could to implement it all.

You won't be disappointed with the new Tuo coming soon.

Technorati Tags: RapidWeaver, RW 3.6, theme, theme release, Update

waVy Contest!

ENTER TO WIN!

One of 2 iPod shuffles,

when you purchase our waVy theme for either RapidWeaver or WordPress. See here for details.

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waVy for WordPress!

Our latest RapidWeaver theme, waVy, is now available as a slick, well thought out, high style WordPress theme. Take advantage of the same great theme variations:

• Header 1 (upload-able with our unique hassle free upload panel)
  • Custom Header 1 to Custom Header 5
• Header 2 (upload-able with our unique hassle free upload panel)
  • Custom Header 1 to Custom Header 5
• Skin
  • Skin 1 to Skin 3
  • No skin
• Navbar background
  (editable with RWmultitools Lite)
  • Navbar 1 to Navbar 5
• Background stripes
  • Vertical
  • Diagonal
  • Off
• Sidebar position
  • In the header
  • In the content area
  • Hide
• Logo position
  • Hide
  • Float right
  • Float left
• Colors (Customizable with our unique color picker)
  • Background color
  • Link and header color
  • Link hover
  • Sidebar text color
  • Toolbar link color
  • Toolbar hover color
  • Toolbar hover background
  • Blockquote text
  • Blockquote border
• Show contact link
  • On / Off
• Sidebar settings
  • Sidebar title
  • Sidebar content
• Advert settings
  • Advert content area 1
    • On / Off
  • Advert content area 2
    • On / Off

For more information, visit the information pages and also check out the live demo of our waVy WordPress theme.

Technorati Tags: theme release, WordPress, WordPress News

waVy for RapidWeaver 3.6

We are proud to announce the first seyDesign theme to roll out in RapidWeaver 3.6 format. waVy, a very well thought out, innovative theme, full of advanced techniques and features is now available for RapidWeaver 3.6, making use of the full feature set, including the color picking features.

For more information about the new waVy, visit the waVy information page.

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