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October Affiliate Payment Sent

2008-11-07T13:33:00.002-05:00

October affiliate payments were sent out today. Please let me know if you did not receive a payment you thought was owed to you.

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THEME UPDATE: Simplistic R3 More Friendly With GoDaddy Hosting

2008-11-07T13:11:00.000-05:00

Simplistic for RapidWeaver has been updated to address some issues with users hosting with GoDaddy. The structure of the comments within the HTML code were triggering specific GoDaddy server commands (a weak method on GoDaddy's part if you ask me) that caused sites made with Simplistic to crash on GoDaddy hosting. The comments have been amended to counter this ill effect.

For more details on the fixes visit the Simplistic update section or download the update directly here.

'sey'Design by Example, we're in print

2008-11-06T15:26:00.003-05:00

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.

THEME UPDATE: Acumen r3 fixes navigation shift

2008-11-06T10:37:00.000-05:00

At risk of completely echoing everything I said about cataLog the other day, I have for you the Acumen update that addresses the same problem, the mysterious shifting second level navigation. It was only a few of you going through this, or at least only a few of you who recognized the trouble enough to bring it to my attention. The fix was similar to that of cataLog, though not exactly the same so we have had to put Acumen through it's own bit of testing, hence the delay of it's release.

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.

THEME UPDATE: cataLog r3 fixes navigation shift

2008-11-05T10:36:00.004-05:00

I have very good news for both cataLog and Acumen users, that we have found the cause of the mysterious shifting second level navigation that was plaguing a small handful of you (no, I no longer consider you crazy). After an exhaustive search we were finally able to trace the odd occurrence to a conflict or difference in interpretation between the Strict DOCTYPE and the Transitional DOCTYPE and their respective roles in rendering the inline-block property.

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.

THEME UPDATE: wideNas r3 fixes footer links

2008-11-03T14:51:00.003-05:00

wideNas for RapidWeaver 4.0 has been updated to r3 to correct a small issue where links in the footer were not clickable. We have also tweaked or added a few other bits here and there such as Info.plist which allows end users to easily view the themes version from Finder. We have also added support for release notes which will allow both developers and end users to keep track of the changes made to the theme over time. This will better allow us to track what version the user is using and help us deliver the best support possible.

For a complete list of the changes, go to the wideNas updates section or download the update directly.

We're back and ready to roll.

2008-11-03T10:08:00.001-05:00

We are back from or little vacay, and back on the horse, if you will, working through a pile of emails and such. On our agenda this week is to address a few bug issues in some of our RapidWeaver themes, namely a footer issue in wideNas, and a couple of mystery bugs that occasionally rear their head in cataLog and Acumen. We should have all of these addressed this week with their respective update installers ready for download.

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're off to London!

2008-10-23T12:04:00.001-04:00

I'm off to the UK for a bit of a holiday. We take flight at 9:40 pm October 23 (that's today) and will be gone for about 10 days. We'll be back to answer your support questions on the week of November 1st. Remember that if you have any major concerns between now and then you can always try posting them the the Realmac Software forum and I am sure one of the kind and knowledgeable folks there will help straighten you out enough until I get back.

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.

NEW THEME: Vortex OS for RapidWeaver

2008-10-21T23:01:00.001-04:00

OS Designer, from Vortex Themes, captures the Mac OS X experience with a window and several desktop backgrounds that feel like the real thing. The simple grace and beauty of the Mac OS X desktop can now be applied your webpage. With many OS flavors to choose from, there will be one that is just right for you.

Features at a glance:

Choice of desktop, from classic to Leopard
background color
Sidebar positions
logo on or off on a page by page basis
Choose from Aqua or graphite page style
and more...

Learn more about OS Designer

See the live preview

NEW THEME: Varsis Studio Simplistic r2

2008-10-09T10:29:00.000-04:00

Simplistic Pro, another Varsis Studio creation is a clean and simple RapidWeaver theme that is surprisingly flexible. Now under seyDoggy management, Simplistic Pro has been scrubbed clean and reworked from this inside out with more function, feature and flexibility.

Features at a glance:

width variations
background effects
custom headers (RWmultitool Ready)
tab spacing
tab transparency
title position
sidebar position
font control
full color control

Learn more about Simplistic Pro

See the live preview

September Affiliate Payment Sent

2008-10-08T13:09:00.000-04:00

Join our Affiliate Program!

September affiliate payments were sent out today. Please let me know if you did not receive a payment you thought was owed to you.

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E-Junkie helps you on your feet

2008-10-03T08:38:00.001-04:00

Things are tough in the US right now. Heck things are getting tough in Canada too where the manufacturing sector is concerned. People are loosing their jobs left, right and center. Well the crew over at E-Junkie want to turn desperate times into a new opportunity for you. Send them a copy of your termination papers and they'll sign you up for a year of their shopping cart for free with no obligation.This is your opportunity to turn bad luck into a new business with a little less risk in getting started. Read more over at E-Junkie.

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NEW THEME: DEViANT Pro

2008-09-29T17:00:00.004-04:00

DEViANT Pro, from DEVi8.design, is an simple, effective and yet stunningly attractive theme that’s good looks mask it’s raw power. With some very advanced features, like 3 tier split navigation, DEViANT Pro looks stylish enough to handle any modern blog or multimedia site, but is powerful enough to manage large sites with sprawling site architecture.

Features at a glance:

3 tier split navigation
Full color control
Width control
Font size and font style selection
Sidebar positioning
Logo on/off selection
background pattern options

Learn more about DEViANT Pro

See the live preview

THEME UPDATE: dogPress r8 fixes small issues

2008-09-26T08:43:00.002-04:00

dogPress for Rapidweaver has been tweaked ever so slightly to correct a few minor issues and improvements:

fixed IE7 navigation rendering bug for sidebar hide condition (haslayout)
fixed IE6 navigation rendering bug for sidebar hide condition (haslayout)
add ";" to the end of the value hide sidebar file
improved support for ".current" color rendering
add release note support
wrapped shadedborder commands in CDATA
removed link color from file sharing description
removed font formating from file sharing description

Visit the dogPress updates section or download the update installer directly from here: [ download ]

August Affiliate Payments Sent

2008-09-09T08:27:00.000-04:00

Join our Affiliate Program!

August affiliate payments were sent out today. Please let me know if you did not receive a payment you thought was owed to you.

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Sign up to be one of our affiliates at E-Junkie.
Place some nifty code on your site.
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THEME UPDATE: Acumen r2

2008-09-08T14:24:00.000-04:00

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.

NEW(ish) THEME: Varsis Studio Fade

2008-08-28T14:00:00.001-04:00

It's a hole new Fade! Aptly named for the fade-in and fade-out effect of the "sidebar" content neatly hidden under the header image, this Varsis Studio original first made it's debut on varsisstudio.com. However, with Chris turning more of his attention to RapidWeaver plugins, we were given the opportunity update and distribute the themes here on seyDesign.com.

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:

added color picker ability
added width options
updated header graphic to accommodate width
updated background options
added keywords
added font size options

Other changes and fixes:

redefined conditional comments
added release.txt to the list of included files
consolidated scripts to "scripts" folder
moved ie css files to css folder
added handheld.css, print.css
updated to be RapidWeaver 4.0 ready
added large preview image
updated small preview image
added General Styles set
changed font sizes to em's
updated header options to all custom
added support for %logo%
added %header% syntax
changed javascript library responsible for slide effect
moved js variable to slide.js file
changes opentab.png to smaller icon for localization purposes

Download the free update installer [here].

Learn more about Fade Designer or see the live preview.

THEME UPDATE: 2hadow r7 (now free)

2008-08-26T16:27:00.000-04:00

I will keep this one short and sweet; 2hadow (now at r7) for RapidWeaver 4 has been committed to the open source pool. Yes, that's right, it's now free for all to download, share distribute, etc... BUT, for those of you who purchased 2hadow we will still be offering full customer support.

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 updated to r2

2008-08-11T15:10:00.003-04:00

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:

fixed keywords
fixed localization for Ancestor Link
added "s" to headings colour syntax
added FireFox 3 support
removed redundant color tag
restructured cascade for better browser support
improved photo album rendering in IE6
corrected commenting on site title

To download the update installer, visit the cataLog update section.

Back from holidays, working on cataLog r2

2008-08-11T11:07:00.001-04:00

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.

July Affiliate Payments Sent

2008-08-08T22:26:00.001-04:00

Join our Affiliate Program!

July affiliate payments were sent out today. Please let me know if you did not receive a payment you thought was owed to you.

Not already registered as a seyDesign affiliate? You can now earn money by driving traffic our way. If the traffic you send us results in a successful sale, we pay you 25% of the total transaction.

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Sign up to be one of our affiliates at E-Junkie.
Place some nifty code on your site.
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You get paid between the 7th and 15th day of the following month.

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seyDoggy on holiday until August 11th

2008-08-03T23:44:00.000-04:00

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.

From August 3rd to August 11th, get 35% off your entire purchase when you use the code "holiday" in your shopping cart.

NEW THEME: Acumen, for fun, art or business

2008-08-03T00:00:00.002-04:00

Looking for a theme with more control and the ability to be used for fun, art and business? Acumen Pro, a new rapidWeaver theme by seyDoggy offers great flexibility with color control, width options and 3 level split navigation.

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:

Triple split navigation
Custom headers, editable with RWmultitool Lite
Sidebar position
Width variation
Turn the logo on or off on a page by page basis
Font size
Extensive color control, including background
More downloadable theme styles

Learn more about Acumen Pro or see the live preview.

bloop! updated to r6

2008-07-29T00:34:00.001-04:00

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.

dogPress Update to r7 recompiled

2008-07-28T14:11:00.001-04:00

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.