Our open source slideshow platform for RapidWeaver themes, SS3, has seen some very big changes pushed up to github over the weekend. Now at version 3.1.0, SS3.1 is now even easier for developers to install into RapidWeaver themes with as little as 7 steps. Now a jQuery plugin, SS3.1 includes all of the working scripts [...]

“A lot of RapidWeaver theme developers like to use prettyPhoto to add a lightbox effect to the built-in RapidWeaver photo and movie album pages. One drawback is that you either have to include the code at all times for all pages and risk polluting the the CSS and JavaScript namespace with rarely used code, potentially [...]

I’ve pushed version 2.1.0 of our open source sdVertAlign jQuery plugin to github. This plugin allows for the vertical alignment of elements within their parent element and is something we use a lot in our themes and stacks. Version 2.1.0 adds some optional features that help boost compatibility with some elements and how they are [...]

“SeydoggySlideshow is no single script or library but is rather a implementation of specific methods to account for the complexity of user input and variability that theme usage encounters. The many moving parts of the SeydoggySlideshow method include jQuery, Cycle, ExtraContent, SlideBox, RwSetGet and rwAddLinks.” — via seyDoggy/SeydoggySlideshow – GitHub. Today I’ve opened up all [...]

“There are a lot of people on the seyDesign forum who want to link things that just aren’t linkable in the usual manner. I’ve had to hand out a version of this code countless times, tailor made for everyone who asks. So I figured it would just be easier if I made a quick and [...]

Many theme developers use update installers to issue their theme updates. Until recently this has been a flawless system. When Realmac Software released RapidWeaver 5 they changed the default double-click install location for themes. This has effectively killed the usefulness of update installers on themes installed with RapidWeaver 5 since we’ve all built our installers [...]

Quite some time ago I wrote a simple JavaScript tool for RapidWeaver theme developers called jsPathto to parse RapidWeaver’s %pathto()% syntax for use in any JavaScript file. It’s been widely used in RapidWeaver themes, especially ours, and it works quite well. However, if you’re not the guy who wrote the script it can sometimes take [...]

When we launched our latest theme, Havnit, we made mention of a new “smart navigation” we were using. It was always my intent to write this explanation of why and how — because we like to share like that — but it surprised me just how much attention the concept was getting and the questions [...]