11 seyDesign Themes Are Now Open Source
To heck with spring cleaning, we’re going for mid-winter cleaning and chucking out a bunch of old stuff that’s been sitting around collecting dust… well… not chucking out, per say… just giving it away for free now!
That’s right, we have added 11 more themes to the “Free” pile to bring our collection of open source themes to a count of 14.
These 11, newly open sourced themes will continue to be supported for another year. They include: dogPress, Fade, Neato, OS, RetroFilm, Tagg, Tuo, TW001, TW003, TW005 and TW006.
When we open source our themes, we’re spreading the love to you, so please, if you make a better, cooler version of these themes, be sure to share them back with us. These works by seyDoggy are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
THEME UPDATE: Sleeker Gets Another Speed Boost for IE6
Well it was back to the drawing scripting board when Tuesdays Sleeker update didn’t quite have all the desired effects I had hoped for. So I took a step back and reworked the code from r2 in hopes that I could gain IE6 load speed another way… and I could… so I did.
Give the update a spin on your favorite IE6 machine and let me know if that does it for you.
Theme Update: Sleeker Speeds up for IE6
Sleeker has had a quick little update to help improve load times for IE6 users. We’ve removed some lines of jQuery that the ol’ beast of a browser was thinking too long and hard about. I should have known better then to make IE6 actually think.
Anyhow, we’ve sped things up a bit for IE6, the senior citizen of the browser world. Get the update here.
THEME UPDATE: TW005 and Creamux Get a Patch
We have two updates for the start of 2010 to fix two little glitches in a pair of themes.
The first is a little trouble with TW005. Internet Explorer 7 — so it seems — is not a fan of letter-spacing and, as such, was acting up when trying to handle successive line breaks. Well… it wasn’t handling them at all… line breaks, that is… and so I fixed it. Go download it now.
The second update goes to Creamux and this really came down to a battle of wills. For a long time now, Creamux has been going head to head and with any JavaScript library that makes use of LightBox — or at least a particular version of it. Creamux was in the right but alas I dare not take the battle any farther. I have changed the single identifier in the Creamux theme that was causing LightBox-like scripts to make big nasty black screens. May virtue rest in peace and let it be known that I fought the good fight… uhh… eh-hem… sorry about that… You can get the update here.
Celebrating 4 Years; New Theme and Big Savings!
It’s hard to believe we’ve been doing this this for 4 years! We have remained unwavering in our pursuit of RapidWeaver theme perfection. In that time we have seen a lot of developers come and go and have remained close with those who’ve stuck around. We’ve enjoyed highs and suffered lows and in the end our drive, passion and determination to be the best RapidWeaver theme developers we can be has led us to this… a four year success story that we can only be proud of!
We continually strive to improve both our products and ourselves as a company and we do it for one reason, the reason that got us here in the first place… you, our loyal customers.
So from our eternal appreciation of everything you have made possible for us we would like to offer you a discount code worth 30% off your entire shopping cart. This offer ends on December 7th so don’t delay.
Discount code: birthday2009
And what good is discount code without anything new and shiny to spend it on?
Our All New RapidWeaver Theme, GiD3OUS
GiD3OUS, our latest theme for RapidWeaver 3.6 and above, is the culmination of months of design, planning, and exhaustive testing. We believe the end result is our finest work to date.
This is a design we’ve been sitting on for nearly a year now. Chris (DEVi8) brought it to the table even before CR3ATiV3. We’ve been refining and revising it constantly — we didn’t want to even think of coding it until we knew it could be done right. That’s why much of what we’ve released in the last year has been in preparation for GiD3OUS.
We could have made GiD3OUS a fixed, graphical layout with very little flexibility, but this layout warranted more. The GiD3OUS theme deserved to be as flexible as we could manage and that meant we had a lot of new ideas to test out before hand, like work done previously on advanced systems such as 3 tier navigation, rounded corners, combination drop menus and ExtraContent … all of which we put together to make GiD3OUS the flexible, easy to use but highly polished theme that it is.
As a seyDoggy Ultimate theme, GiD3OUS comes fully loaded with powerful features, including width control, 3 tier tabbed navigation, rounded corners, ExtraContent, and a variety of others:
- 2 ExtraContent areas
- RWmultitool ready
- 10 customizable headers
- 10 customizable footers
- 3 tier hybrid-split navigation
- sidebar positioning
- comprehensive color control
- width control
- font size and style selections
Learn more about GiD3OUS (Ultimate)
See the live preview
Learn more about ExtraContent
Also Check out Some Updates
We have also dropped some minor updates to 5 other themes, badNas, Tuo, TW004, TW005 and TW006. Be sure to check those out and update your themes today.
THEME UPDATE: viEw r2 Refines Font Sizes
We’re nearly complete with all the new demo sites and we’re still finding things to pick apart in each theme as we go. With viEw we found some old updates that we never issued and found a few things we could improve as well — namely the font size control.
You can download the update installer here.
THEME UPDATE: Sleeker r2 Fixes Color Picker Issues
In Sleeker r2 we have addressed a few small items that we’re missing from the color css file which was effecting the way the color picker was (or wasn’t) effecting some of the more obscure elements.
This was a really small change but it was bothering me just the same.
You can download the update installer here.
THEME UPDATE: TW010 r4 Nails the Footer to the Bottom
Yet again, while updating every themes demo site in turn, I found something I didn’t quite like in TW010. What better time to fix it then while I am about to update it’s live preview.
Anyhow, I have nailed the footer to the bottom of the page they way it was intended to be (and not actually sure why it wasn’t).
You can download the update installer here.
THEME UPDATE: TW007 r5 Fixes a Navigation Issue
While mucking around, making an all new demo site for TW007, I discovered a little niggly rendering glitch in the horizontal navigation bar that only appeared when an item was hovered over. You might have seen it too, a 4px overlap? Well we’ve fixed it anyhow.
You can download the update installer here.
THEME UPDATE: Simplistic r6 Improves Movie Album Styles
Similar to yesterdays discovery of a little glitch in the RetroFilm theme, today we discovered some style issues with Varsis Studios Simplistic RapidWeaver theme. This update will add improved styling to the movie album page (for those few who use it).
You can download the update installer here.
