bloop! updated to r6

We've gone and made a very small change to our seyDoggy bloop! theme for RapidWeaver, bringing it up to r6. It became clear over the last few months that IE 6 transparency support in our navigation system was a nearly lost cause.

With the various hover states we needed for said system IE 6 was all but agreeable. Each and every fix caused more problems down the line. Considering the visual effect was only very minor, we decided that instead of forcing IE 6 to render the transparencies, we ought to just downgrade the IE 6 experience ever so slightly (with is actually an improvement now).

Visit the bloop! information page to learn more or go directly to the download section to download and install the update.

dogPress Update to r7 recompiled

Last week we announced an update for seyDoggy dogPress which brought it to revision 7 (r7). As one caller pointed out today, there were errors in that installer and the updates were not accurately installed.

To rectify this we have recompiled the r7 installer and labelled it as "r7 B". If you have already updated to r7, please download and install r7 B.

Thank you, and sorry for any inconvenience.

NEW THEME: seyDoggy cataLog for RapidWeaver 4.0

We are more than happy to introduce you to cataLog Pro, our latest RapidWeaver theme. cataLog Pro offers a first for RapidWeaver themes, 3 level split navigation, which allows for three separate levels of nested page navigation for those really large, hard to manage websites.

You can manage online stores and corporate websites like a professional webmaster with tiered page architecture that allows the ultimate in information structuring and visitor channeling. Users of your site will be able to fly through your site with ease, drilling down to what is important to them in no time at all.

Features:

• Triple split navigation
• Custom headers, editable with RWmultitool Lite
• Sidebar position
• Turn the logo on or off on a page by page basis
• Font size
• Extensive color control
• More downloadable theme styles

Learn more about cataLog Pro or see the live preview.

THEME UPDATE: dogPress r7

dogPress for RapidWeaver has been updated to fix up a few problems that have been on the bug list for a while now. This update is recommended for all users of dogPress.

For more details and to download the update go to the update section of the dogPress page.

THEME UPDATE: Tagg r2 adds print style and bug fixes

Tagg theme for RapidWeaver has been updated to r2. To learn more about the changes made go to the updates section of the Tagg page.

New theme: seyDoggy Tagg

We are proud to introduce to you our latest RapidWeaver theme, Tagg, our first in a new Designer theme series. Tagg is a modern design with every last detailed the way we would want it if it were for our very own site. And that's the idea behind Designer themes.

Designer themes are aimed at those who want a hot theme made the way a designer would make them, without a lot of variations to fuss over. Just simple, fast, and HOT! But the best part about Design themes is that they are only $8.24, half the price of our Pro themes! Learn more....

June Affiliate Payments Sent

Join our Affiliate Program!

June affiliate payments were sent out today. Please let me know if you did not receive 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.

Just a reminder, location, location, location...

We've been busy re-skinning all the most recent RapidWeaver theme update installers for a few reasons; 1) we want them to look pretty and follow suit with the rest of our new seyDesign 2008 look, and 2) we wanted the chance to emphasize that location is so important when getting set to use one of our update installers to update your seyDoggy RapidWeaver themes.

As you will read, no doubt the next time you update a theme:

"If you have moved your RapidWeaver theme to a different location, or if you have renamed your theme, you must restore it to it's original name and location before continuing."

The new theme organization features in RapidWeaver 4.0 are a great idea, and we are happy that this is now possible, however, you must remember to move your theme back to the ~/Library/Application Support/RapidWeaver root for any of our installers to work. Since there is no other constant than this folder, it is the only path we can be 100% positive will exist when compiling our installer apps to deliver the proper patches to each of our themes.

Also remember that if you are in the habit of renaming your themes (an older practice that dates back to RapidWeaver 3.1 and earlier), you must change the name back to it's original designation before running the installer. Again, the theme name is another constant we rely on when compiling our installer apps.

Member area access fixed.

Sheesh! Relaunching a totally rebuilt site is never without its complications but it's the little things that get you the most. Things like having the correct path in htaccess files that allow members to actually access the member area?

Anyhow, for any one who was having difficulty getting into the members area, please try the link in your emails again. It should work now.

Member signup is fixed

There were a number of people trying to sign up as seyDesign members over the weekend, unfortunately the signup form was borked and most attempts failed. I am pleased to announce the form has now been fixed.

If you were one of the ones trying to sign up without success, please give it another shot now.

Let's clarify what is covered under Creative Commons

The new seyDesign 2008 launch has been getting a great deal of media coverage and that's fine. However, it is being reported that:

"Users are encouraged to download, modify and improve these RapidWeaver themes and share them back with seyDesign and the general public. Themes there are covered under the creative commons license."
source: MacsimumNews among others.

This simply is NOT true and is an example of poor journalism if you ask me. The ONLY themes that we encourage this behavior for, and the ONLY themes that are covered under the creative commons license, is our Open Source themes (which currently only includes the "waVy" RapidWeaver theme).

I am terribly sorry about any confusion in this matter. It is clearly a case of misread press releases and extracting the bits that sounded the coolest.