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:

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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.