RapidWeaver 4.3 Is Now Available!

Realmac Software has just announced this morning that RapidWeaver 4.3, their anticipated Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 update, has been released. Initially caught off guard when Apple released the update to the Mac operating system nearly one month ahead of schedule, the dedicated team at Realmac Software have been going full bore to get RapidWeaver to run rock solid on Snow Leopard.

RapidWeaver 4.3 comes with many new features and numerous bug fixes, some of which include:

• Snow Leopard compatibility
• Added the ability to add and edit links in Styled Text views via the right-click contextual menu
• The right-click contextual menu now exposes the default commands for searching Google & Spotlight, Dictionary lookup, suggested spellings
• RapidWeaver now uploads all the assets relating to a site, and then uploads the pages themselves to ensure that pages display correctly when published
• Google Analytics code is no longer output when previewing within RapidWeaver to prevent pageview number inconsistencies
• No longer bounces the dock icon when publishing completes
• Fix for a bug where a plugin failing to load could leave RW in an unknown state
• Shortcut keys added to link panel (command-1/2/3)
• Shortcut keys added to site setup sheet (command-1/2/3)
• Fixed a bug where editing the meta tags or page assets in the page inspector didn't mark the page as changed
• For full details of the extensive updates read Realmac's release notes

If you've recently updated to Snow Leopard then you'll want to download this very important RapidWeaver update.

Simplistic r5 Cleans up Links Behaviour

Simplistic has been updated yet again to address some errant code that had found it's way into the colour tag css file. By removing this code, links will now behave as originally designed.'

Learn more here. Download the free update installer here.

Note that these update installers are now created in Snow Leopard OS X 10.6. If you are running OS X 10.5 and have trouble updating your theme, please let us know.

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THEME UPDATE: Simplistic r4 fixes sidebar issues

Fresh off of holidays and our first task back was to update a critical bug in our Pro theme, Simplistic. We made significant structural changes to improve the sidebar option functionality. These changes will enhance performance with plugins such as Loghound's FAQ Maker as well as improve rendering and layout when the sidebar is hidden.

For more information and to download your free update installer, visit the Simplistic Updates section.

All Theme Weaver Products Now at seyDesign

We have finally managed to squeeze out the last of the RapidWeaver themes in the THEME WEAVER series making the transition from their original home on the THEME WEAVER site to our own site final. It's been a long and complex process--updating 10 themes in no small feat--but we've managed. Most of the updates in this batch were just house keeping, getting them ready for a long future on seyDesign.com, but there are two examples, TW008 and TW009 where the changes were more significant.

What's new in TW008?

Major performance enhancements; with newer and better technologies to make Internet Explorer behave, we've been able to dramatically trim down the image sizes. All other browsers need not suffer anymore due to IE's inadequacies.

What's new in TW009?

We have completely rebuilt TW009 and added so many new features. The headers in TW009 can now range from showing just one or as many as five in a row. Each header spot can be any one of 12 customizable headers. And each header now sports the same rounded corners as the rest of the layout. In addition, you can control the height of the header area o turn it off all together.

We have also added a plethora of feature to TW009 such as ExtraContent, font options, completely remapped and enhanced color options and more.

Learn More About Each Theme

Learn more about TW006 (Designer).
Learn more about TW007 (Pro).
Learn more about TW008 (Pro).
Learn more about TW009 (Ultimate).
Learn more about TW010 (Pro).

NEW THEME: Lights2, a med-designs classic revived

Never ones to let a great RapidWeaver theme die, seyDoggy would like you to meet the totally rebuilt Lights2 from med-designs. Lights2 is a polished, elegant and highly flexible theme capable of fitting many web design needs from blogs to photo album and everything in between.

med-designs Lights2 Pro RapidWeaver theme picks up where the original Lights theme left off. While maintaining as much of the original Lights design as possible, Lights2 Pro has added some of todays greatest features and flexibility to one of yesterdays greatest theme designs.

Features at a glance:

• ExtraContent
• lighting effects
• 5 customizable top headers
• 5 customizable content headers
• header height variation
• RWmultitool ready
• full color options
• width control
• sidebar positioning
• and much more...

Learn more about Lights2 (Pro).
See the live preview.
Learn more about ExtraContent.

THEME UPDATE: CR3ATiV3 r3 Updates IE6/IE7 issue

Once again, our very popular CR3ATiV3 theme for RapidWeaver sees itself in the update seat, this time to fix a very minor bug with IE6/IE7 rendering. These browsers were having trouble putting the triangular accents in the right place when the sidebar was hidden. This minor update fixes that issue.

Learn more about the update here.

Download the update here.

THEME UPDATE: CR3ATiV3 r2 Updates Safari 4 issue

Our popular CR3ATiV3 has been updated to resolve a small rendering issue we experienced with the recent release of Safari 4. At the bottom of the content area the small triangle was displaced down by 1px making it appear disconnected.

• Learn more about the changes made.
• Download the update installer directly.

Great Discounts for Summer Break

June is here and for many that means that school is out! That’s great for the kids but leaves many parents wondering what to do with their youngsters. You want them to continue to exercise their minds so they don’t loose their edge before a new school year in the fall.

Well if you are reading this then you must already have a passion for RapidWeaver, so why not share that passion with your kids this summer and embark on a creative web project together? Start a family blog detailing the daily events of their summer vacation, post a photo album of camping or fishing trips or help them build an online resume for that summer job.

Your kids get a break this summer and parents should too. To help get your family web project rolling we are offering a Summer Break discount to get your kids just the look they want for their website. From now until June 7th (23:59 EST) you get 25% off when you use the code: summerbreak. Use it on our entire catalog of themes and use it as many times as you need and get your kids started on a new creative web project today!

Shop now!

Discount code (25% off): summerbreak

NEW THEME: CR3ATiV3 Ultimate Is Elegant, Flexible, Yet Lightweight

seyDoggy is proud to announce their first all-new RapidWeaver theme since the launch of PlayMore in January, 2009. Our latest offering, CR3ATiV3 Ultimate is an exquisite example of what happens when you put together brilliant design with effective and efficient coding.

Beneath this RapidWeaver themes breathtaking exterior and magnificent functionality is a surprisingly lightweight and agile collection of finely tuned code and styling. CR3ATiV3's developers, Creative Director Chris Cifonie (aka pixel.ninja) and Lead Developer Adam Merrifield (aka code.ninja) seamlessly lock skill sets to bring you one of their finest work yet.

Features at a glance:

• 2 Extracontent Areas
• 3 tier navigation
• 10 Custom headers
• RWmultitool Ready
• Header height
• Multiple Widths
• Sidebar Positioning and sizing
• Font control
• Highly Comprehensive Color Control
• and more...

Learn more about CR3ATiV3 (Ultimate).
See the live preview.
Learn more about ExtraContent.

THEME WEAVER's TW005 has been brought over to seyDesign

By the spring of 2007, THEME WEAVER was looking for another basic RapidWeaver theme to offer the public. TW005 was billed as a simple, yet versatile theme for RapidWeaver, offering a clean, subtle backdrop that wouldn't overshadow your creativity or your content. TW005 comes with professionally crafted "Headbands"; additional header graphics you can drop into RWmultitool Lite to create a look that's all your own.

Formed in late 2006, THEME WEAVER of Mississauga, Ontario, is the RapidWeaver theme development wing of print studio, PUMP Communications/Presentation Plus. Guided by Adam Merrifield of seyDoggy/seyDesign fame, THEME WEAVER successfully produced 10 new themes from January 2007 to February 2008 and issued updates through to October 2008.

Today, due to time constraints on both parties, it's been decided that THEME WEAVER themes will be distributed and supported by seyDesign. Keeping them as originally intended will be the primary goal, but in some cases, enhancements and embellishments have been made where ever the opportunity has presented itself.

Features at a glance:

• Rwwmultitool Ready
• 8 Custom headers
• Graphic enhancements ("Headbands")
• Sidebar Positioning
• a little Color Control

Links:
Learn more about TW005 (Designer).
See the live preview
Download the update.

Themes TW003 and TW004 now join the seyDesign lineup!

We have 2 THEME WEAVER updates for you; TW003 and TW004. Both have gone through our quality filters and both have been updated accordingly. Enjoy!

With their third offering, TW003 from February of 2007, THEME WEAVER sought to capture the e-commerce niche. Created with retailers in mind, TW003 for RapidWeaver is built to inspire consumer confidence with an appealing storefront design that's both progressive and professional. This RapidWeaver theme is simple to use and easy to customize with a large header space and selectable overlays. On line shopping never looked so good!

Features at a glance:

• Rwwmultitool Ready
• 10 Custom headers
• Sidebar Positioning
• Comprehensive Color Control

Links:
Learn more about TW003 (Designer).
See the live preview.
Download the update.

On a roll back in February of 2007, THEME WEAVER was quick to release their 4th RapidWeaver theme, TW004. Pulling out all the stops and breaking with many conventions, TW004 was graphical showpiece. Created with flexibility in mind, THEME WEAVER's TW004 for RapidWeaver imparts an upscale image that's suitable for delivering both editorial and advertising in a familiar, friendly print format. It's a magazine. It's a catalog. Best of all, with this RapidWeaver theme, it's up to you.

Features at a glance:

• Rwwmultitool Ready
• 12 Custom headers
• Background textures
• Graphic enhancements
• Photo realism
• Sidebar Positioning
• Comprehensive Color Control

Links:
Learn more about TW004 (Designer).
See the live preview.
Download the update.

NEW THEME: THEME WEAVER's TW002 from seyDesign has ExtraContent!

THEME WEAVER's sophomore RapidWeaver theme, TW002, was initially thought to be well suited to the corporate and commercial sectors. With a little seyDesign magic, however, we think we've transformed this once limited theme into a versatile RapidWeaver template capable of fitting the needs of just about any industry.

Formed in late 2006, THEME WEAVER of Mississauga, Ontario, is the RapidWeaver theme development wing of print studio, PUMP Communications/Presentation Plus. Guided by Adam Merrifield of seyDoggy/seyDesign fame, THEME WEAVER successfully produced 10 new themes from January 2007 to February 2008 and issued updates through to October 2008.

Today, due to time constraints on both parties, it's been decided that THEME WEAVER themes will be distributed and supported by seyDesign. Keeping them as originally intended will be the primary goal, but in some cases, enhancements and embellishments have been made where ever the opportunity has presented itself.

Features at a glance:

• ExtraContent
• RWmultitool ready
• split navigation
• full color options
• width control
• font size
• font family selections

Learn more about TW002 (Ultimate).

See the live preview.

Buy it now.

NEW THEME: THEME WEAVER's TW001 comes to the seyDesign lineup!

We are proud to bring you the first of ten themes from THEME WEAVER that will all soon be under seyDesign's care. Originally marketed as a RapidWeaver theme for the medical sector, TW001, THEME WEAVER's January 2007 entrance onto the RapidWeaver theme scene, was a clean and simple theme. True to it's original form, TW001, under seyDesign's flag, maintains a simplistic approach with a few of todays enhancements, like color options.

Formed in late 2006, THEME WEAVER of Mississauga, Ontario, is the RapidWeaver theme development wing of print studio, PUMP Communications/Presentation Plus. Guided by Adam Merrifield of seyDoggy/seyDesign fame, THEME WEAVER successfully produced 10 new themes from January 2007 to February 2008 and issued updates through to October 2008.

Today, due to time constraints on both parties, it's been decided that THEME WEAVER themes will be distributed and supported by seyDesign. Keeping them as originally intended will be the primary goal, but in some cases, enhancements and embellishments have been made where ever the opportunity has presented itself.

Features at a glance:

• Rwwmultitool Ready
• 10 Custom headers
• Sidebar Positioning
• Comprehensive Color Control

Learn more about TW001 (Designer).

See the live preview.

THEME UPDATE: Acumen r5 adds form field control

Acumen for Rapidweaver has been updated to include color control for form field background and text. A missing file was also added. Learn more about the update. Directly download the update here.

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March 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 20% 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 20% 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.

We've gone and hired us some help!

It has been a long time coming. We've been in need of help around here for quite some time and we have finally taken that step forward. It's one thing to have a small legion of contract contributors to the seyDesign team like Varsis Studios, Vortex, Med Designs, etc... But when it comes to actually running all the operations around here, from customer support, to press releases, site upkeep, product development and product launch... for that, there is, for the most part, only me.

But today is different. Today I am very proud to announce that Chris Cifonie of DEVi8.design and the designer behind the very popular DEViANT RapidWeaver theme is now an official, part-time employee of seyDoggy. Over time Chris will be taking on the role creative director/webmaster but for now Chris' primary role is to create the beautiful theme styles and the gorgeous demo sites for each product.

There is no question about it, Chris has a killer design style. If there was any doubt, Chris was the guy behind the Med Design Bubblegum styles. We've never received as many positive comments on our theme styles as we did with Bubblegum so clearly Chris has the touch.

We are looking forward to Chris' help in the coming months. This now frees us up to work faster, harder and move forward with newer designs and greater updates. So welcome aboard Chris.

NEW THEME: Bubblegum r7, a Med Design Beauty Shines Again

When Med Designs made a return to action in 2007, one of their new offerings at the time was a RapidWeaver theme called Bubblegum. This was a highly polished theme dripping with style. Due to technological limitations, however, Bubblegum was not very flexible as far as your color choices, headers and features were concerned. seyDoggy has now gutted this gorgeous theme to make if more flexible, more powerful and more advanced. It's the same stylish Bubblegum, just a lot more horse power under the hood!

Bubblegum, our second offering of the updated Med Designs Library is packed with ExtraContent, 3 tier navigation, width options, comprehensive color control, 10 custom headers (RWmultitool ready), header height control, font control and so much more. The highlight of this RapidWeaver theme is it's eye catching, 3 tier navigation that can be fine tuned to pop out at it's viewers, blend into the background or just simply shine!

Med Designs Bubblegum, is another Ultimate theme for RapidWeaver packed with many features. It includes numerous snippets, the custom headers used in the demo site and downloads for all of the pre made theme styles.

Features at a glance:

• 2 Extracontent Areas
• 3 tier navigation
• Multiple Widths
• RWmultitool Ready
• 10 Custom Headers
• header height control
• Title control
• Sidebar Positioning
• Font control
• Highly Comprehensive Color Control
• and much, much more...

Learn more about Bubblegum (Ultimate).

Download the update.

See the live preview.

Learn more about ExtraContent.

We Now Accept All Major Credit Cards!

I am very pleased to announce that PayPal is no longer our only option and you no longer require a PayPal account to make purchases from our theme store. As of today we now accept all major credit cards directly.

It's My Birthday! Let's have a sale!

Today is my 35^th birthday and what better way to celebrate a birthday then to give you something, like 35% off all themes in our theme store. For today* only use the following discount code to get 35% off your shopping cart at checkout:

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This code can be used multiple times so if you can't get everything into one cart, just come back for more and use the code again. seyDesign Members should check over at the member group to see what kind of discounts they get to take advantage of.

* Wednesday March 18 2009 11:59:59 pm EST [-5UTC][-5GMT]

THEME UPDATE: wideNas fixes small IE6 issue

Our wideNas RapidWeaver theme has been updated to correct a slight issue with the hover color on tabs when viewed in IE6. Surprisingly enough this issue had not come up in the past before, it only showed up under specific conditions.

You can learn more about what has changed here or just download the update installer.

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February 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 20% 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 20% 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.

THEME UPDATE: Creamux, Gotem and PlayMore

We have three updates to give you this time, Creamux, Gotem and PlayMore. The updates are primarily based on the updated ExtraContent scripts announced earlier today. The updates to ExtraContent should hopefully increase compatibility in the ExtraContent areas with a wider range of content, such as user scripts, @import pages with javascript (like Kwix and Collage 2) and should improve stability with said items on FireFox as well as Safari.

Learn More about the Creamux update.
Download the Creamux update.

Learn More about the Gotem update.
Download the Gotem update.

Learn More about the PlayMore update.
Download the PlayMore update.

Announcing the ExtraContent Stacks Plugin

On February 18th Isaiah of YourHead Software announced the release of Stacks 1.0, a brilliant RapidWeaver plugin for easy yet exquisite page layouts. It's possibly one of the most advanced and powerful page layout tools we've seen for RapidWeaver to date. But Isaiah also released the API for Stacks to allow developers like myself to hook into the power of Stacks and create our own custom stacks to add to the Stacks library.

Having recently addressed concerns of whether or not accessing ExtraContent areas in ExtraContent enabled themes was difficult to do with little fragments of code I seized the opportunity to explore the new Stacks API to find a better way. That's how I came up with the ExtraContent Stacks Plugin, a custom Stacks library item that allows you o utlize ExtraContent without snippets or code. Just drag and drop it into your page like any other stack and build on top of it. From the comfort of the Stacks interface you can choose the ExtraContent area you wish to access and then build your your layout inside of it. Everything inside the ExtraContent stack will render in the ExtraContent area you chose. Watch this movie to see it in action.

Just like ExtraContent, the ExtraContent Stacks plugin is free and open source. If you are a developer who has embraced ExtraContent in your themes then feel free to distribute this custom Stack as an added bonus.

Learn more about the ExtraContent Stacks plugin here, watch the tutorial here, download the ExtraContent Stacks plugin here and get YourHead Softwares Stacks for RapidWeaver.

ExtraContent; it's as easy as 1, 2, 3

There was a small bit of confusion recently about the use of ExtraContent and whether it actually required a coders knowledge to make use of. We set out to debunk any misconceptions about ExtraContent's relative ease of use with a new movie that demonstrates exactly how easy it is to use ExtraContent and how it requires no knowledge of code at all.

Give it a watch and tell me what you think. There is also a large version if you have trouble seeing the content.

NEW THEME: Creamux with ExtraContent

Something old and something new... When we adopted the Varsis Studio theme library, one of the themes that was coming back home was the Creamy and Creamy Wide themes. When first looking at how to bring these two greats up to speed to todays RapidWeaver 4 standards I had a number of ideas in mind; combine the two, make it more flexible, add more features. Before long though, it became apparent that this wasn't going to be a Creamy update, it was going to be a totally new theme, a complete rebuild from the ground up... it was going to be a complete redux... it's seyDoggy Creamux!

We proudly present to you Creamux, our latest all new theme. Creamux is ExtraContent enabled, with width options, comprehensive color control, 10 custom headers (RWmultitool ready), background and header effects and font control. This theme stands out bold and pops to life with it's excellent design and professional styling.

seyDoggy Creamux, is another Ultimate theme for RapidWeaver packed with many features. It includes numerous snippets, the custom headers used in the demo and the RWmultitool project files used to create some of the headers (which will help you create your own).

Features at a glance:

• 2 Extracontent Areas
• Multiple Widths
• RWmultitool Ready
• Logo Control
• 10 Custom Headers
• Sidebar Positioning
• Font control
• Highly Comprehensive Color Control
• and more...

Learn more about Creamux (Ultimate).

See the live preview.

Learn more about ExtraContent.

Learn more about PlayMore at ExtraContent.info

Love PlayMore but need a little help? Head on over to ExtraContent.info for a quick and informative run down on the particulars of PlayMore's 3 ExtraContent areas. Ryan Smith of RapidWeaver Classroom shows us how to do a number a really neat tricks with Loghound's Pluskit and gives a quick once over of PlayMore all around. Check out the video now.

THEME UPDATE: Acumen r4 patches archive links

It recently came to our attention that the blog archive links found in the sidebar of a blog page do wrap. We remember why this code was introduced, but we can't recall or understand for that matter when or why it now breaks things. So... we fixed it. Hopefully that doesn't unfix what we thought we were fixing in the first place... if that makes any sense.

Go to the Acumen updates section to learn more and download the update installer, or download it directly from here.

RapidWeaver Classroom Cross Promotion

Back on January 5^th, our parent company, seyDoggy Web and Graphic Design, quietly launched ExtraContent.info in support of our recent launch of PlayMore. We would have liked to say something about it sooner but time simply just got away from us. ExtraContent.info is a community site intent on helping new users get the hang of ExtraContent enabled themes. We hope it will soon be filled with lots of great material soon.

But this brings us to the bigger point of this post. We have recently hashed out a cross promotional deal with RapidWeaver Classroom. You can get a 20% discount from your subscription with RapidWeaver Classroom when you sign up at the seyDesign Google Group. What's even more incredible is that you get 50% off all seyDesign themes when you sign up for a membership with RapidWeaver Classroom! Put those two great offers together and you're looking at a total of 70% savings! Woo-hoo!

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December 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 20% 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 20% 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.

THEME UPDATE: Gotem r2 adds another ExtraContent area

You asked for it again and again and again and again and again... *sigh*... so despite my original intent and vision of the Gotem design, I have begrudgingly updated Gotem to include an additional ExtraContent area (#3) to allow users to add content into the "traditional" sidebar area. LOL, I am not really that torn up about it. It's actually a good sign that you have embraced ExtraContent as well as you have and for that I commend you.

The other update concerns those users who do not wish to use the RapidWeaver title and slogan fields. While I strongly urge you to use these fields from an intarwebs ideological standpoint I can understand why this may not always suit your needs. For this we have added some code that should prevent the title area placeholder from collapsing when not in use. I hope this addresses your needs adequately.

To download or learn more about this update, go to the update section of the Gotem information page.

NEW THEME: seyDoggy PlayMore, with ExtraContent

When we introduced our first ExtraContent enable RapidWeaver theme, Gotem, we had high hopes of the concept doing well among advanced users. We never imagined that it would take off as wildly as it did with all levels of user experience. This wide adoption rate gave us the confidence to take the idea further.

Gotem was a great proof of concept, but we knew we were after a bigger picture. Our latest theme, PlayMore takes the ExtraContent feature another step further with more flexibility, more control and more freedom. The ExtraContent areas, 3 of them, are now just a part of the fluid design of this exquisitely crafted RapidWeaver theme.

seyDoggy PlayMore, is another Ultimate theme for RapidWeaver and has lots of features. It includes numerous snippets, the original header graphic art (which I presume your wouldn't want to use) and the RWmultitool project files used to create the headers (which will help you create your own).

Features at a glance:

• 3 Extracontent Areas
• Multiple Widths
• Rwwmultitool Ready
• Header height
• 10 Custom headers
• Sidebar Positioning
• Font control
• Highly Comprehensive Color Control
• and more...

Learn more about PlayMore (Ultimate).

See the live preview.

Learn more about ExtraContent.