December 26, 2008

seyDesign Boxing Day Bonanza!

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From all of us at team seyDesign, we wish you a very Happy Holiday Season!

December 12, 2008

seyDesign and Med-Designs bring back RetroFilm

RetroFilm UltimateIt recently came to our attention that Med-Designs had closed up shop. Being one of the original RapidWeaver theme developers, Med-Designs has been one of those names you've gotten used to seeing in RapidWeaver circles, so you can imagine our surprise to see that kind of institution shutting it's doors.

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:

  • upgraded to RapidWeaver 4 compatibility
  • refined code to validate
  • added Info.plist for end user version tracking
  • added release.txt for developer bug tracking
  • added IE 6 png transparency support
  • added RWmultitool ready headers and footers
  • added fully functional width options
  • refined color picker features
  • added large preview image
  • updated small preview image
  • added keywords
  • and much, much more...

Learn more about RetroFilm (Designer).

See the live preview.

December 08, 2008

ExtraContent Tutorials

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:

December 07, 2008

November Affiliate Payment Sent

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December 05, 2008

NEW THEME: seyDoggy Gotem, with ExtraContent

Gotem UltimateThe Beatles once said, "I get by with a little help from my friends." That is definitely the case with the technology behind the latest theme from seyDoggy, Gotem. Our latest RapidWeaver theme is a sophisticated, contemporary RapidWeaver theme of extraordinary beauty and capability. But it also sports a new technology called ExtraContent.

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:

  • ExtraContent enabled
  • Two ExtraContent areas
  • 10 Custom headers
  • RWmultitool Ready
  • Split navigation
  • Width control
  • Header height control
  • 3 background textures
  • Dual sidebar control
  • Choice of font style
  • Color control
  • and more...

Learn more about Gotem (Ultimate).

See the live preview.

Learn more about ExtraContent.

December 01, 2008

The seyDesign 3rd Birthday Sale!

Birthday sale! As one of my Twitter peeps put it this morning, "There's not many companies nowadays that can celebrate a third birthday!" For this fact, we know we are truly blessed to be doing what we are doing. Surrounded by friends, colleagues and the best software community in the universe, seyDesign.com has enjoyed an incredible 3 year run as RapidWeaver theme developer.

To mark this momentous day, we are having a week long sale. From now until December 7th you can get 45% off your entire shopping cart (minimum 2 products) when you use the code:
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