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.
