Last week I sent out a newsletter to everyone letting you know about our annual Christmas sale. Many of you have already taken advantage of the savings but I am certain that many more still need to.

You can save 40% off of any of our products that we sell in our theme store from now until the end of the year. You don't have to worry about any coupons or anything as the discount will automatically be applied.

NOTE: The Discount can only be applied when purchasing via E-junkie

Gary

Tags: Sale, Discounts, E-junkie

If you are interested in becoming a beta tester for a brand new and really cool plugin for RapidWeaver called "Partitions" then please visit the RapidWeaver Plugs website and fill out the "Beta Invite" form.

Partitions is sure to be a popular plugin that will be easy, powerful and very useful! Get in on some of the action early

Gary

Tags: Partitions, Plugins

Several months ago I began building a theme for RapidWeaver but was never able to release it to the public simply because it needed to offer the user more ways to add content that were presently available to RapidWeaver. The theme just sort of sat there in my theme drawer and I had wondered if I would ever be able to finish it out. Then, within a few days time we, along with some help from some other developers (seyDesign and (((Bonsai Studio))) ) were able to develop a friendly and standards compliant way of adding additional content to RapidWeaver themes. I was so buzzed about this progress that I pulled out that lonely old theme and finished it off in a couple of days.
I decided "
Buzz
" would be an appropriate name for such a theme.
The
Buzz
theme is a 3 column masterpiece ... as you can tell we are very proud of this theme and very excited of the possibilities of how this theme will be used.
It makes use of
4
ExtraContent containers that you can use to insert text or any other content into. The extra containers are located:

• in the header area underneath the site title and slogan
• underneath the Navigation in sidebar number 1
• underneath the content area of the page and above the footer area (this is especially handy in pages like Kwix and the Contact Form)
• and lastly in the footer area

Just click on the image below to see they type of theme that Buzz is ... then be sure to go by and visit the

Demo
Site for the Buzz theme.

ExtraContent VIDEO DEMONSTRATION

Tags: ExtraContent, Buzz, 3 Column

I believe that we have entered into a new era of theme development for RapidWeaver. Over the last few years the theme development community has done a pretty good job of pushing the boundaries of a RapidWeaver theme just about as far as they could possibly go, but the end users wanted more. More places to hold content, more places for images, more places for that html, more, more, more.
So a few of us developers began talking about how we could realistically offer users "more" in a stylish, standards compliant way. After a few days of discussions and testing we finally settled on using the power of the Snippet and a little bit of jQuery "no conflict". We chose to call this new feature "ExtraContent"

Now for the first time in RW history users will have the ability to add content to areas of themes that have not yet been possible. I am certain that more developers will pick up on this as time goes by, but for now there are only a few themes that offer this freedom. (actually, as of today there are only 3).

In case you are wondering ... the other developers are Adam Merrifield from seyDesign and Giuseppe Caruso from (((Bonsai Studio))).

You can get a look at the "ExtraContent" containers in action by viewing this video that I created demonstrating how it all works.

ExtraContent VIDEO DEMONSTRATION

Gary

Tags: ExtraContent, SeyDesign, Bonsai Studio, Video