What's Been Going On At RWT?
March 01 2009 01:49 PM Filed in: News
Since last August (2008) things have been
unbelievably busy ... incredibly busy ... so busy
that at times it is hard to keep things in somewhat
of an order. We have been working on new themes,
updates to old themes, plugins, applications, an
occasional supportcast, design work, and a number of
things that I can't talk about yet. However, I want
to let you know about some of the things we are
working on.
Headliner 3 Theme Re-Write
Since it's introduction nearly two years ago the Headliner 3 theme has been one of the top sellers of the RWT theme library. The reason for this is because it allow you to do what only a couple of RapidWeaver themes will do and that is to allow for split or dual sidebars. We originally created this theme using some crafty re-direction of the "h3, 4, 5, and 6" tags. While this method worked just fine it is not the optimum way to achieve this effect but because of the limitation of RapidWeaver this was the only way that made sense to us.
However, late last year (2008) an awesome new feature was created by a handful of 3rd party theme developers (myself included) that would allow the end user to enter content into areas that were not before possible. This new feature was dubbed "Extra Content".
The Headliner 3 theme is in the process of being re-written to make use of "Extra Content" instead of all those "H tags". I will admit that we have been a slow in getting this out to everyone but there is quite a lot of the theme that we have had to trash and re-write. It is still an active project and shaping up nicely.
New Site Design
If you have been following the RWT website over the last several years you know that we like to change site designs every few months. Well, its that time again ... we will soon be unveiling a brand new site design.
New Themes
We do have 2 brand new themes that will be made available within a couple of weeks.
Plugins
There is an update to the Partitions plugin in the works. I don't want to reveal to much about what is in this update we are wanting to create a page style (plugin) that will become your default page style for RapidWeaver. (Hint: It does have something to do with Extra Content)
Application Develoment
Most of you know that we are also the developers of Webify (http://www.mudbugsoftware.com). We are working on what needs to be corrected and added or changed for a Webify 2 release, although we do not have any dates set as of yet.
There is another application that is in early development ... by that I mean, still in my head .... that I am looking to get started by the end of the summer.
Well, there you have it .... a little sneak peak of some of the things going on at RWT these days.
Gary
Headliner 3 Theme Re-Write
Since it's introduction nearly two years ago the Headliner 3 theme has been one of the top sellers of the RWT theme library. The reason for this is because it allow you to do what only a couple of RapidWeaver themes will do and that is to allow for split or dual sidebars. We originally created this theme using some crafty re-direction of the "h3, 4, 5, and 6" tags. While this method worked just fine it is not the optimum way to achieve this effect but because of the limitation of RapidWeaver this was the only way that made sense to us.
However, late last year (2008) an awesome new feature was created by a handful of 3rd party theme developers (myself included) that would allow the end user to enter content into areas that were not before possible. This new feature was dubbed "Extra Content".
The Headliner 3 theme is in the process of being re-written to make use of "Extra Content" instead of all those "H tags". I will admit that we have been a slow in getting this out to everyone but there is quite a lot of the theme that we have had to trash and re-write. It is still an active project and shaping up nicely.
New Site Design
If you have been following the RWT website over the last several years you know that we like to change site designs every few months. Well, its that time again ... we will soon be unveiling a brand new site design.
New Themes
We do have 2 brand new themes that will be made available within a couple of weeks.
Plugins
There is an update to the Partitions plugin in the works. I don't want to reveal to much about what is in this update we are wanting to create a page style (plugin) that will become your default page style for RapidWeaver. (Hint: It does have something to do with Extra Content)
Application Develoment
Most of you know that we are also the developers of Webify (http://www.mudbugsoftware.com). We are working on what needs to be corrected and added or changed for a Webify 2 release, although we do not have any dates set as of yet.
There is another application that is in early development ... by that I mean, still in my head .... that I am looking to get started by the end of the summer.
Well, there you have it .... a little sneak peak of some of the things going on at RWT these days.
Gary
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Mudbug Software Releases Beta of Webify
September 17 2008 03:16 PM Filed in: Mudbug
Software | Webify
One of the cool features of Webify is that there will be an SDK that will be made available when the final version is released. An SDK will allow other developers to create "add-on's" or plug-ins for Webify that will extend the functionality of the application.
It uses the core graphics effects that are built into Leopard so the changes made to images are super fast.
There are sever plug-ins that come pre-installed with the beta with the promise of a couple more to be added to the final version which should be available in October.
If you want to see some screenshots then be sure to drop by the Mudbug Software website and read up on Webify.