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I promptly contacted Scott of Med-Designs and asked him what he had planned for his theme library. Before long we had struck up a deal to bring the works over to seyDesign.com and breath some new life into them. So it is with great pleasure and a certain amount honor to bring you the legendary theme, RetroFilm
RetroFilm, a highly stylized RapidWeaver theme from Med-Designs gives you the sense you are looking at a salvaged bit 35 mm "Safety" film. For the movie buffs, this old stock of a theme should fit your movie blogs or review sites just fine. Tickets please!
RetroFilm has been totally reworked to bring it up to date with RapidWeaver 4 and has also had a few feature enhancements. We've made all of the headers and footers RWmultitool. We have also added the much asked for width feature, which is fully compatible with all headers and footers. Enjoy this old theme like it's new all over again.
Updates at a glance:
Gary at RWT and SupportCasts.com was nice enough to put together a *eh-hem* human sounding screen cast (more human than our own) that further helps users understand the ExtraContent feature found in our latest theme, Gotem, a feature that we'll likely see more of:
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ExtraContent came about when a handful of 3rd party developers got together to address the need for more content spaces in RapidWeaver. While the content area and sidebar are ample space for the vast majority of RapidWeaver users, there are some who want more flexibility to add content in ways keeping with todays modern web designs.
ExtraContent was the solution agreed upon by these developers as an easy means of end users adding more content to their site, in developer designated areas of ExtraContent enabled themes. While these areas will vary from theme to theme, the process will be very much the same. These developers worked closely to come up with a solution that would give all users a common experience.
I want to give a special thanks to Guiseppe from (((Bonsai Studios))) and Gary from RWT for sharing a common vision with me. You can look for new ExtraContent enabled themes from them VERY soon.
Features at a glance:
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And that is the case of FormLoom (announced here) which takes the idea of the built in RapidWeaver Form plugin and and puts it in a whole other universe. Now consider that the original RapidWeaver form plugin has been plagued with many issues over the years and has been missing certain many rudimentary features. It's the kind of plugin that requires a great deal of attention, with server side programming, keeping things un-hackable, striping tags, etc... With everything else that RMS has going on, this little plugin has probably been a sore in their side. FormLoom is just what was needed in my view. It does (or will do) everything that a form plugin ought to do with the technology that it should be doing it with. In short, the forms it generates are proper web apps.
I have yet to get my hands on a copy but I am most certain that I will be able to put this thing into some heavy rotation. Go check it out for yourself.
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For more details on the fixes visit the Simplistic update section or download the update directly here.
There is no greater flattery than to be made an example of so when we were asked some time ago if we would consent to being published in DesignMeltdown's, The Web Designer's Idea Book, I was truly honored.
Today, I received my copy in the mail and was thrilled to find these kind words on page 102 along side a screen shot on page 103:
"A great example of a unified design is the seyDesign site. It has an office theme, and everything flows together perfectly. The corkboard background creates a terrific foundation to tie the site together. It essentially gives the office supplies a place to exist."
Of course this isn't how the site looks today, but for this 2007 iteration of seyDesign.com to be forever immortalized in print is a true sense of accomplishment. All in all, RapidWeaver developers as a whole had a good showing in this book with various sites. Adam from Elixir Graphics has already written about his contributions. and I've heard there are more, I just haven't had time to look through each page yet.
To get yourself a copy of this most excellent web design resource, go to Amazon.com.
Again, I won't bore you with the details here, as I have gone on about it at length here, and having now labored through this issue twice I can say that I have about had my fill of DOCTYPE differences. Acumen is now fixed like it's sibling, cataLog, and we have now issued the update to Acumen.
Again, we would like to apologize for any inconvenience this has caused the group of you who had this occur to them but we are confident that you can now put this behind you. We want to thank John Coyne and Marten Claridge for all your work in guiding us to the problem and diligently testing our fixes along the way.
For more details on the fixes visit the Acumen update section or download the update directly here.
I won't bore you with the details here, as I have gone on about it at length here, but I will just say that we were relieved to finally be able to replicate the issue ourselves and find a resolution to the problem. We have fixed and are now releasing the update to cataLog and the update to Acumen should come out later this week.
We would like to apologize for any inconvenience this has caused the group of you who had this occur to them but we are confident that you can now put this behind you. We want to thank John Coyne and Marten Claridge for all your work in guiding us to the problem and diligently testing our fixes along the way.
For more details on the fixes visit the cataLog update section or download the update directly here.
For a complete list of the changes, go to the wideNas updates section or download the update directly.
And as always we are ever moving forward and onward with the theme developments and ideas. We have quite a list of them to get through over the next year or so so you can be sure to see one or two new themes from us every month. Yes that is an ambitious plan, but this is what we do after all, we might very well be the only full time RapidWeaver theme developers now who do nothing else.
And speaking of RapidWeaver, did you notice that RapidWeaver 4.2 has been released? Yes indeed. I have not yet tried it myself, but I have downloaded it and will be getting into it shortly. Learn more about it's release here.
We'll try to keep you posted on our daily outings. That's likely to occur on Twitter so if your inclined to keep tabs on the leisure time of a theme developer geek like myself then you can come follow me.
Anyhow, stay safe and we'll catch in a few days time.
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Features at a glance:
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dogPress for Rapidweaver has been tweaked ever so slightly to correct a few minor issues and improvements:
Visit the dogPress updates section or download the update installer directly from here: [ download ]
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seyDoggy Acumen for RapidWeaver has been updated to r2. The changes are only slight with an improved print style sheet and a few tweaks here and there. One invasive change, however, is the removal of the copyrighted header images that accidentally made their way into the distributed version of this theme. If you relied on these images then this might be an aggravation to say the least, so I recommend you make backup copies of the images so you can reinstate them after the update installer runs.
Get your free update here.
We have spent the last few weeks bringing Fade up to RapidWeaver 4 standards as well as adding a great many features and functionality. Since this was our first time burying our heads in Fade's code, we decided not to go too overboard... for now. That's why we have decided to offer Fade as a Designer theme but keeping the door open for further development in the future.
New Features:
Other changes and fixes:
Download the free update installer [here].
Learn more about Fade Designer or see the live preview.
So why free? 2hadow has been around for 3 years now. We're tired of looking at it wondering what we can do to freshen it up. We thought there was no better way to breath new life into this old theme then to turn it loose of you guys.
You can download the whole thing, or if you already have r6, just download the update installer.
Learn more about 2hadow:
http://www.seydesign.com/themes/2hadow/
Learn more about 2hadow Update to r7:
http://www.seydesign.com/themes/2hadow/#updates
Learn more about our open source initiative:
http://www.seydesign.com/themes/Open_Source/
See the live preview:
http://www.seydesign.com/showcase/2hadow/
cataLog for Rapidweaver has has been patched up to fix a FireFox 3 issue and also to do a little internal tidying of things that were bugging us, code wise:
To download the update installer, visit the cataLog update section.
We are back from holidays and have spent the better part of this morning working through support emails and phone messages. What you can look forward to later today is an update to cataLog Pro which will address a few FireFox 3 issues and a few bits of house cleaning.
We are still working with two customers who have issues rendering the second level of navigation. I am not sure what makes their situations different from everyone else's but I hope to pin-point those issues before letting this update out to the wild.
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As all hard working people should, we are set to take a few days holidays to rest and recoup some positive energy, inspiration and innovation. We'll come back in a weeks time right as rain and set to make more great products for you. You can expect us back in the office chair ready to face RapidWeaver, TextMate and PlistEdit Pro for another round of RapidWeaver themes, updates, open source and support on or close to August 11th.
In the meantime, lets make the wait worth while. Let's have a "seyDoggy-is-taking-a-holiday" sale! In fact, let's use "holiday" as the discount code. From now until August 11th, use the discount code "holiday" and get 35% off your entire shopping cart! Isn't that fun? I knew you'd think so.
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Visitors to your Acumen themed site will be treated to the ease of use and and comprehensive navigation that only a 3 level, tiered navigation can offer. With large colorful navigation options your visitors will always find their way around.
Features:
Learn more about Acumen Pro or see the live preview.
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.
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.
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:
Learn more about cataLog Pro or see the live preview.
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.
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.
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....
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Our latest theme, wideNas has been updated to r2 to correct a little typo in the index.html template file that was the cause of the tabs not showing up when previewed in RapidWeavers "Default" mode. The javascript responsible for making the tabs was looking for a class of "toolbar_horizontal" but the template had a class of "toolbar_horizontal " (note the space after the t and before the end quote).
We didn't catch this originally because we always develop in "Tidied" mode, as this was once the RapidWeaver default. Now that "Default" is the.. erm... default, we will have to change development kits to reflect this and hopefully avoid this needle in a haystack issues in the future.
You can get your update installer here
In this post: The New Site | The New Theme: wideNas | Two Theme Updates | Free Themes
Welcome to seyDesign 2008, our biggest and most ambitious site porting ever. We have taken every single inch of our massive website and turned it inside out, all in the name of delivering to you the most effective RapidWeaver theme store and resource possible. You'll find everything about the new site familiar, yet much more fluid. You'll no longer have to jump from page to page to find out theme features, download more styles or get the latest theme updates. Each theme page is now it's own mini site with all of your needs and wants answered on a single page.
wideNas is what we now refer to as a Pro theme (more on such distinctions at a later date) who's pro features include such things as custom headers, width control, full color control, font selection and much, much more.
Learn more about wideNas | Preview wideNas
We are excited to tell you about two updates to two great themes. The first one I want to tell you about is viEw, one of my personal favorites. viEw r3 is now available, bringing it up to speed with RapidWeaver 4.0, adding the large preview and keywords to assist in theme browsing and searching respectively. Learn more about viEw | Get the update
The second theme I want to tell you about is Tuo, a RapidWeaver theme that changes the face of RapidWeaver theme development everywhere back in 2006. Tuo has had another radical change, rebuilt from the ground up to optimize performance, clean up code and extend functionality well beyond previous versions. Some of the new features include enhanced color control for all aspects of the layout (including top level navigation bar and the sidebar area), width variations, font selection and more. Learn more about Tuo | Get the update
What happens when a theme gets retired? It use to go in this lonely place on my hard drive called "_discontinued" but after having recently retired another theme, waVy, I could stand the thought of this theme rotting away until file corruption finally takes it's last whispering breath away. It's a perfectly good theme, and we like it a lot (I even use it on RapidWeaved.com) but it's just not popular enough to invest anymore time into further development of it.
So here is what we've decide to do with waVy and other themes like it; we have started a new section on the site, under the THEMES category, called Open Source. There, governed by the laws of Creative Commons, users can download, use, share, post back to seyDesign.com and redistribute our open source themes, absolutely free.
All in all I would say that this was a rather action packed blog post. Look for more exciting news in the coming weeks.
We are doing a little house cleaning in preparation of the new seyDesign 2008 site relaunch. Now it's alway hard to say goodbye to a part of the family but there comes a time when we must just let go of the week ones to help us focus on making the strong one better. What I am getting at is this; we have decided to pull the plug on waVy once the new site gets launched. Support will continue as usual though, so if you are a waVy user, fear not, we have still got your back.
Goodbyes are never forever though, especially with the themes we hold close to our heart (we like waVy and have made use of for our own projects), but we have a lot of new things and revitalized things coming down the pike and waVy is just having trouble keeping up. Look for a new section of our upcoming relaunch that will harbor our homeless themes in the comfort and dignity that they deserve.
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For reasons I can't explain, possibly with RapidWeaver 4.0 being a more sensitive soul or more attuned to to the files it must work with... whatever the reason, I am going to venture a guess that RapidWeaver 4.0 has caught what looks to be a corrupted update installer dmg. The original "badNas r6 Upgrade" dated March 26, 2008 worked, for all intents and purposes, in RapidWeaver 3.6 (though the error might have arose in some instances) but in RapidWeaver 4.0 it seems the corruption was too much to handle.
So to address this glitch we have simply rebuilt the update installer dmg and app and now all seems well by all accounts. If you have ever experienced trouble with badNas r6 in either RapidWeaver 3.6 or RapidWeaver 4, it is recommended that you update your theme using the "badNas r6 B Upgrade" dated June 2, 2008. You can find the list of badNas updates »here«.
With all the chatter about the impending RapidWeaver 4.0 release there is probably some question about our current RapidWeaver theme library and whether our themes are compatible with RapidWeaver 4.0. The long and short of it is that all but two of our themes are currently enabled with full RapidWeaver 4.0 suite of features while the last two are still compatible regardless. All RapidWeaver 3.6 themes work in RapidWeaver 4.0 as is.
That's not to say we won't be updating those last two themes, in fact they are updated already, we've just been too busy to release them yet. The same goes for our seyDesign 2008 site redesign, it's nearly ready to go, we're just trying to find the time to add two more new themes to the roster before we launch.
We had hopes of launching seyDesign 2008 before RapidWeaver 4.0 was released but that just won't be possible now. It's always good to be busy I guess, but sleep is good sometimes too.
From tip to toe, seyDoggy took care of the whole package for FlipSide5; the graphics, web design, game icons and pieces, logo, etc... they did the whole thing. But enough about us...
Reston, VA—May 27, 2008—FlipSide5, Inc., makers of the popular web editions of Tic-Tac-Touch and 4InARow touch are now launching versions to download and install, allowing players to own these games on their iPhone and iPod Touch. Both these products, Tic-Tac-Touch and 4InARow touch, are designed to be amazingly "simple, fun and wow", refreshing these ageless classics for today's generation.
Go to seyDoggy.com to read all about it.
Gary from RapidWeaverThemes.com has just posted a commentary on what makes you a Pro when you call yourself a "Pro Theme Developer". He hits the nail on the head, it's NOT just those who do it exclusively for a living who can call themselves a Pro. It's more than that. It's all in how you conduct yourself and your business.
Some of the names you think of when you think of a "Pro Theme Developer" are myself (seyDoggy), RapidWeaverThemes.com, Elixir Graphics, RapidIdeas, BlueBall Design, Josh Lockhart, MultiThemes, Varsis Studio, THEME WEAVER... The fact of that matter is that only a few of us actually make themes and web designs for a living, exclusively, while others have day jobs, go to school and what not. But what makes them all worthy of the Pro title is their support and commitment their products, to RapidWeaver and to each other as a community of friends and developers.
For more on the subject go to Gary's blog and read his full post .
The new clothes that seyDoggy.com has donned is in preparation for an upcoming site launch that seyDoggy played a big part in. It seemed only fitting to announce this upcoming great new site from one that is as equally great. Stay tuned for more on this "new site" news.
Your questions and comments are always appreciated so don't be affraid to let us know what you think about the new seyDoggy.com
For those of you patiently waiting for more news concerning the upcoming seyDesign 2008 launch and the soon to be released Tuo update, please hang tight. We have a busy schedule at seyDoggy and we are addressing every ones needs in turn. I will have more news as it becomes available.
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The one and only, the original, first commercially available theme with split navigation is currently on the operating table undergoing some fairly major surgery... yet again. From it's early days in the spotlight as "Duo" it's first major transformation came when the code base was rewritten from scratch to bring the more stable, more feature rich "Tuo".
Soon after that came the major overhaul required to bring Tuo up to RapidWeaver 3.6 compatibility again bringing greater functionality to the already great layout. Now in preparation of the seyDesign.com site relaunch, we are taking yet another look at Tuo and what can be done to make it better and more flexible.
So how does variable with, variable header height, FULL color control sound to you? I thought you might like the sound of that. We have started from scratch (for real) and remapped this theme from start to finish. I think you'll like what's in store for this old girl.
Stay tuned.
Our edGy theme has been recently updated, bringing it up to RapidWeaver 4.0 standards. You can download the free update installer here.
You must have a working copy of "seyDoggy edGy.rwtheme" in your "~/username/Library/Application Support/RapidWeaver/" folder for this update installer to work.
Please make a backup copy of your theme before running the update installer.
Where have we gone? I know it seems like we've fallen off the face of the earth, but we haven't. On the contrary I, myself, have been so overwhelmingly busy it's hard to remember my own name at times. It's made it tough to do things like update my totally awesome seyDesign theme buyers with news of what to expect on the horizon.
So here is a list of things you can expect to see from us in the future (it's too hard to say when though):
So what have we been up to that has us so quite? Lots of websites and graphics. Unfortunately I am not at liberty to speak of any of them but a few of them are pretty sweet. I did take a few hours of my schedule last week to quickly blast up a personal website to catch all of my random thoughts and activities. You can see the fruits of my labour at AdamMerrifield.info.
I hope to have more exciting news for you soon, and until then, happy weaving.
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One of seyDesign's finest, Chris from Varsis Studio, was recently interviewed by Ryan Smith for RapidWeaved.com. Chris gives some insight into the radical new approach to his development of his highly anticipated and very well received RapidWeaver plugin called CoverFlow.
If you have been living under a rock for the past month or so and were not aware of this plugin, this interview is a good introduction to both Chris and his incredible plugin. [ read it here ]
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