We are proud to present you both a new look and a brand new RapidWeaver theme. seyDoggy Sleeker is a new feature-packed template that combines rich texture, sleek lines, and subtle lighting with power-user-options and an innovative hybrid-split navigation. The end result is an Ultimate seyDoggy theme unlike any other, and a fresh new look for the seyDoggy site that are proud to show off.

Every year around this time we update our look, launch some new products, and generally set the pace for the final quarter of the year. The release of Sleeker is, in a sense, the culmination of a variety of new methods and design trends we’ve been dabbling in for a little while and we thought it was time to update our site to follow suit.

We have a few new tricks up our sleeve with Sleeker that we think might be new in the RapidWeaver game: hybrid-split navigation that allows RapidWeaver users to have both a horizontal menu that hides sub-menu items in a tidy drop-down panel, as well as the option to display those same sub-menu items in a vertical navigation system in the sidebar.

I can’t say for certain whether it’s been done before in a RapidWeaver theme, but I know I have never come across it. Certainly not without the use of Javascript. I’ve been wrong before though so don’t quote me on it.

As a seyDoggy Ultimate theme, Sleeker comes fully loaded with powerful features, including width control, choice of navigation system, a selection background textures and gradients, ExtraContent, and a variety of others:

• 2 ExtraContent areas
• 10 customizable headers
• 5 navigation systems
• title, logo, and sidebar positioning
• sidebar positioning
• RWmultitool ready
• background textures
• comprehensive color control
• width control
• font size and style selections

And that’s not all! Ryan of RapidWeaver Classroom was kind enough to offer us a generous promotional code to go with this launch. Until September 30th get 25% off any subscription at RapidWeaver Classroom. All new subscribers will be pleasantly surprised at the discounts that a new subscription gets them towards other great RapidWeaver products.

RapidWeaver Classroom 25% discount code: E7A6E78AEA
expires: September 30th

Learn more about Sleeker (Ultimate)
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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.

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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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