Included with the download of the Headliner 3 theme are 5 video tutorials that will help you get started using the H3 theme. I thought that it might be good to post them for everyone to see.

H3 Intro An Intro to the H3 theme	H3 Features Features of the H3 Theme	Sub-Navigation Creating Sub-Menus in H3
Extra Content Extra Content Area #5	Using "Boxes" How To Use "Boxes" in H3

Tags: H3, Video

Finally, we have released the all new and much improved Headliner 3 theme for RapidWeaver. When the H3 theme was first released 2 years ago it was the only theme of its kind in that it allowed you to insert content into 3 columns. However, as awesome as the H3 theme was it did have its shortcomings and users had to be very creative for H3 to reach its full potential. In this version of H3 we wanted to make things much easier for the end user and also to provide much more flexibility. We feel that the result will keep the Headliner 3 theme at the head of the class for pretty good while.

Briefly the Headliner 3 theme includes:

• 2 popular width options for content driven sites
• 5 EC Containers
• 5 video tutorials to help you become more familiar with H3
• 4 custom snippets built specifically for H3
• All of the colour picker options that you have come to expect from RWT
• "Boxes" (A custom snippet that creates the "box" for you ... all you have to do is add your content)
• Please take a few minutes to navigate through the DEMO site by clicking on the link below.

Tags: H3, 3 Column

Ok folks, the Headliner 3 theme, otherwise known as H3, is all packaged up and will be ready to go in a matter of hours. I am just running the servers through some final paces. You will want to check back here in a couple of hours for an update.

Tags: H3

Back in late 2007 we released the Headliner 3 theme that was the only one of its kind for RapidWeaver. After nearly 18 months it is still the only theme of its kind that lets the user direct content to a left and right sidebar. Admittedly, the solution that we came up with was not the most ideal solution but it did offer RapidWeaver users something that they simply could not do with other themes.

With the introduction of Extra Content in late 2008 the H3 theme was a perfect candidate to be update or re-written to take advantage of all the EC offers. So let me give you a rundown on how things are progressing.

We have actually finished all of the markup and around 95% of the css and I have to tell you that this is going to be a phenomenal update. So far everything validates at W3C and works in all of the major browsers including IE6 & IE7. This update will include 2 very popular widths (960 px and 1080 px). You will be able to have full content in either the left or right sidebar. You will also be able to have the sub-navigation in either the left or right sidebar.

Some of the options that were included in the original H3 theme have been removed due to "popular request" ... namely the Google Ads box and the Date box. However, I have included and EC container underneath the top level navigation so you will be able to use this EC container for Google Ads if you wish.
Some other settings have also been removed simply because they were not necessary in the way that we re-wrote the theme.

The H3 theme will have a slightly different naming scheme so that it will not overwrite your current copy of H3. I felt that this was important as many of you are using the H3 theme on really large sites and I did not want to overwrite any settings that you may have set up.

As I mentioned earlier we still have a little more testing to be done before we make this publicly available but this theme will be a FREE update to all who have purchased the theme in the past.

Gary

Tags: H3, Updates