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.

Technorati Tags: RapidWeaver, RW 3.6, theme, Update

An inside look.

tumblDoggy has posted a little picture of the seyDoggy headquarters. For those of you who wonder what goes on behind the scenes at seyDoggy, this is an interesting glimps into this sometimes mysterious world of Intar-web tube mapping. Requires surprising little doesn't it?

Technorati Tags: head quarters, Mac Pro, seyDoggy, tumblr, web design

nutMac is compusively blogging again!

Adam Merrifield of nutMac.com has published “Compulsive Blogging Part 2”, the second installment in a four part series aimed at getting those that might be new to blogging a little head start.

Head over and have a read.

Technorati Tags: nutMac, seyDoggy, tumblr, web design

seyDesign is screenlicious!

It can be said that I spend very little time going about the internet to intentionally plug seyDesign. Perhaps I should, and have done so a little more since the new site launch, but truth be told I haven't made half the effort I could have (in fact I've only suggested the site to three places in the last few days). That's why I was pleasantly surprised, while doing a spot check on site stats, to find we had picked up a influx of visitors from Most Inspired, who'd in turn, picked up a listing of seyDesign on Screenalicious.

I have only ever heard of Most Inspired in passing and have never heard of Screenalicious before at all so I really was quite honored for the mention for what it's worth.

EDIT: dipping in to do a little more research, I found that the Daily Slurp (another unknown site to me) had also listed seyDesign on the 27th of May (can be reached by clicking May 27 on the calendar)! I'm not sure that all this attention is warranted or not, but I do hope that it's a sign that the new design is being well received. I must say I am left with a warm fuzzy feeling inside when this sort of unsolicited praise is thrown our way.

Technorati Tags: Daily Slurp, MostInspired, RapidWeaver, screenlicious, seyDesign, seyDoggy, web design

Creamy narrow for WordPress is now available

Creamy for RapidWeaver was wildly successful. Now you can enjoy the same great

narrow Creamy theme for WordPress

as well.

Automatically upload up to 10 header images at the click of a button, choose from skin settings, title positions, link colors, background colors, sidebar positions, content size font family and more; all from our unique "Theme Styles" built right in to the WordPress Dashboard.

In addition, you'll find the extra content areas handy in the sidebar, above the header and below the footer. Perfect for content of all types, especially advertising. You can see it in action here, at the

live demo site

.

To learn more, visit the

Creamy narrow information page

.

RapidWeaver 3.6 is here.

So we can now breath a sigh of relief, RapidWeaver 3.6 is finally here. So what's new and what can we expect from seyDesign?

It's easy to modify themes with new color picking features. You don't need to work inside the guts of the theme anymore, it's all right there in the Information palette.

Store you snippets of oft used code in the new snippet manager.

The flash slide show and regular photo album have seen some needed updates.

Tagging when a single category is not enough.

List management for creating professional looking lists without the fuss of learning HTML.


We've been playing about with RapidWeaver 3.6 for a while now and apart from the above mentionables, some of the highlights for us personally have been the ability to drag pages from one RapidWeaver project to another (long overdue), the maintained state of page attributes when copied and the new and improved look of the blogging.

So what does this all mean to seyDesign? We'll some of the new features in RapidWeaver require a little bit of theme upgrading. Some of the new features require a lot of upgrading. We are going to update all of our current themes to bring them up to the minimum RapidWeaver 3.6 standard, however, some of the more advanced features might not make it in to our updates, most notably the color selection options. We will do our best to see what we can do as we would like to bring as many of our RapidWeaver themes up to speed as we can.

You can be sure we will keep you posted.

Digg RapidWeaver 3.6

Is RapidWeaver 3.6 on it's way?

Keep a watchful eye on the Realmac Software site today. It seems as though they might be launching the new site AND releasing RapidWeaver 3.6.

We have been testing 3.6 for a while now and I don't think you'll be disappointed. As for our themes, all of our current library will be upgraded to allow the basic set of new syntax available in RapidWeaver 3.6 but we haven't decide yet which themes will include the more advanced feature like the color modifiers.

Stay tuned, it's going to be a great day for RapidWeaver fans.

Send us a picture

I think this would be a really fun idea; if you are a seyDesign theme owner, send us a snapshot of yourself holding a sign with your URL on it. We'll post them in the little polaroid picture at the top right here. Be as creative, fun, serious or ridiculous as you like and we'll try to get them up in rotation.

Send you snapshots in an email titled "Snapshot" to "info[at]seydoggy.com".

Creamy wide for WordPress is now available

Creamy for RapidWeaver was wildly successful, especially the wide version. Now you can enjoy the same great

wide Creamy theme for WordPress

as well.

Automatically upload up to 10 header images at the click of a button, choose from skin settings, title positions, link colors, background colors, sidebar positions, content size font family and more; all from our unique "Theme Styles" built right in to the WordPress Dashboard.

In addition, you'll find the extra content areas handy in the sidebar, above the header and below the footer. Perfect for content of all types, especially advertising. You can see it in action here, at the

live demo site

.

To learn more, visit the

Creamy wide information page

.

Part 1 of a blogging series at nutMac

Part 1 of Adam Merrifields series on Compulsive Blogging is up live at nutMac.com. If you're interested in blogging and want to know more about the subject before getting started, give this article a read.

This might be of interest to RapidWeaver and WordPress users since RapidWeaver and WordPress are both very powerful blogging engines, with other offerings as well, like RapidBlog from Loghound (an alternate blogging plugin for RapidWeaver).

Creamy wide is coming soon to WordPress

Creamy wide is a wildly successful theme at seyDesign so it's only natural that we port it over to WordPress. The testing and debugging is going well so we'll be ready to release it sometime in the coming week. It is our current priority to get this one out there ASAP.

Also on the docket for WordPress conversion is 2hadow and waVy. So stay tuned for these great conversions.

We got crawled in short order.

Moving at the speed of Web 2.0 never ceases to amaze me. Just for interest sake, I thought I would take the search page for a spin (powered by Yahoo!) and to my surprise, Yahoo! has indexed the entire new site! It's only been live for a few days and yet the crawling has been done.

Of course there are a lot of the old pages still in the results, but those will fade after a while. So if you want to use the search function, go right ahead. I hope you find what you are looking for.

waVy screencast is now available

We've made a new screencast to show how easy it is to change both headers in waVy using RWmultitool (pro or lite version would work). You can view the new screencast here: sceencast #010

nutMac tips

Over at nutMac.com, seyDoggy founder Adam Merrifield is publishing a series of articles on compulsive blogging his work flow to get numerous articles out with little effort.

If you are intrigued with the blogging but think it's a little too much work for you, be sure to follow his series to learn how quick and easy it can be.

Getting to know the new seyDesign.

I can't begin to tell all of you how relieved I am to finally get the new seyDesign up and running. Is it done? Not at all. There are many things on the horizon; more content, more movies, more social net working, more feeds, more ways to get to know us... The reason we've held off on all that stuff being launched from the get-go is because that sort of stuff is easier to implement on the live platform. We thought it was best just to get it up and out and paint in the corners after. So far the response and reaction has been awesome. I am so glad you were all able to receive such a radical departure from the old seyDesign with an open mind. Our real focus on the new layout was to have user friendly navigation that would be easy to use and would always leave you with a feeling of knowing where you were at all times. The look and feel... it's intended to be informal and inviting, very community oriented and just an all round comfortable place to be and read and learn stuff. The "Home" tab has all the basics, the news, the resources (where you'll find the learning center), the transparent company and personnel information, the FAQ (which will expand with every new type of support question asked). The "Theme" tab is where you will find our products, RapidWeaver and WordPress alike. It's essentially in list form; select the name from the sidebar, learn a bit about it, find out about the design specs, features, live demos, etc... right there. The links are there right on each product page. The "Support" tab is where you can ask us for help, get in touch, sign up to be a member or learn about the other service we can offer you. The "Search" tab is how you can find your way around, whether it's through the search field (which won't be terribly effective for a while until the new site gets indexed again) or with the sitemap. I hope you have an enjoyable visit and I hope to here some feedback.

Welcome to the new seyDesign.com!

I am so proud to announce the opening of our new store at seyDesign.com. It has been a long time coming and what turned out to be a fanciful idea turned out to be a major undertaking. By the time you get this email the new store should be up and running (you might need to clear your cache if you've been a recent visitor). So what's new? EVERYTHING! You'll notice a new design and layout, a new architecture, a new team member, new resources and places to go. There is a new members area where discount codes can be obtained for ALL of our products. You'll also notice the introduction of a new version of Tuo... for WordPress (http://wordpress.org). Yes it's true, we have secretly been porting many of our themes to WordPress (courtesy of Ollie Levy). This is not so we can leave the RapidWeaver community, but quite the opposite. It is our hope that by offering a really great and versatile product to the huge WordPress market, we might attract more attention to the RapidWeaver community. I have to tell you, the WordPress version of Tuo is amazing and makes WordPress feel not so... WordPressy. There are lots more WordPress themes to come but we wanted to fully test theme and get our feet fully on the ground with the themes first. If you want to take a peek at Tuo for WordPress in action, take a look at http://www.wigglywumble.com. The other new thing you'll notice is a brand new RapidWeaver theme called waVy; it is our best yet. Wait until you see it. I hope you enjoy the new site. If it pleases you, then please be sure to spread the news on your blogs, on Digg.com, on del.icio.us, on stumbleupon.com... where ever you want. Thanks everyone.