Options Theme Version 1.1.7
V1.1.7 Of the Options theme introduces a couple of new features and fixes a few errors in V1.1.6.
Errors Fixes:
Shadows: Previously, using shadows with the page header or footer attached to the content container resulted in some grey lines (from the shadow) showing through.
This has now been fixed.
Snippets: Search bar snippet script had a typo which caused it to go slightly wrong (extraContainer1 instead of myExtraContent1).
Updates for 1.1.7
Opacity: Transparent background/header graphics lightened slightly. This allows the image/colour underneath to show through better.
Snippets: Snippets added to allow both a chosen colour (solid or colour gradient) and a single background image to be shown at the same time. There are now 34 versions of the translation snippet (1 version for each language supported by the snippet). A new OSX search box snippet has been added.
Logo Alignment/Location: This has been updated to allow the logo to be placed much more precisely. There are now 42 variations for to choose from (14 from top, 14 from left, 14 from right)
Content and Sidebar Content Capitalisation (Deluxe Versions Only): The Conten Container and sidebar content and now be altered to show 5 different Capitalisations (Normal, First Letter Of Each Word Capitalised, All Lower case, First letter of each word is in Large Capital all others are Small Capitals, All Letters Upper Case). This has not been included in The lite versions.
Scripts: jQuery 1.6.4 has been added to the installable scripts.
From now on purchasers will be given access to beta test versions to test out new/improved features. Once the new features are working properly they will be added to future releases.
Errors Fixes:
Shadows: Previously, using shadows with the page header or footer attached to the content container resulted in some grey lines (from the shadow) showing through.
This has now been fixed.
Snippets: Search bar snippet script had a typo which caused it to go slightly wrong (extraContainer1 instead of myExtraContent1).
Updates for 1.1.7
Opacity: Transparent background/header graphics lightened slightly. This allows the image/colour underneath to show through better.
Snippets: Snippets added to allow both a chosen colour (solid or colour gradient) and a single background image to be shown at the same time. There are now 34 versions of the translation snippet (1 version for each language supported by the snippet). A new OSX search box snippet has been added.
Logo Alignment/Location: This has been updated to allow the logo to be placed much more precisely. There are now 42 variations for to choose from (14 from top, 14 from left, 14 from right)
Content and Sidebar Content Capitalisation (Deluxe Versions Only): The Conten Container and sidebar content and now be altered to show 5 different Capitalisations (Normal, First Letter Of Each Word Capitalised, All Lower case, First letter of each word is in Large Capital all others are Small Capitals, All Letters Upper Case). This has not been included in The lite versions.
Scripts: jQuery 1.6.4 has been added to the installable scripts.
From now on purchasers will be given access to beta test versions to test out new/improved features. Once the new features are working properly they will be added to future releases.
Options Theme Version 1.1.6
V1.1.6 Of the Options theme introduces a couple of new features and fixes a few errors in V1.1.5.
Errors Fixes:
The 35px Horizontal menu below the header had a small error where the buttons were too small.
This error has been fixed for V1.1.6.
The horizontal menus are in the process of being completely re-designed and will be released in a future update.
Updates for 1.1.6
Background Images: Adding background colour gradients caused an error in MSIE. MSIE prevented background images from being displayed properly whilst there was a colour gradient actve. As a result the background colour gradient was removed for MSIE. However, a set of 4 images has now been added to simulate the colour gradient (top, right, bttom, left) and bypass the MSIE error.
Font Family: A Georgia fornt family has now been added and made the default fonty family (it displays better on compputer screens). This brings the total font families up to 20.
Heading Shadows: Shadows have now been added to headings in content and sidebar areas (h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6) to make them look better.
Menu Capitalisation (Deluxe Versions Only): Menu button text can now be altered to show 5 different Capitalisations (Normal, First Letter Of Each Word Capitalised, All Lower case, First letter of each word is in Large Capital all others are Small Capitals, All Letters Upper Case). This has not been included in The lite versions.
Scripts: Active Bar 2 jquery script and snippet added to the theme.
Errors Fixes:
The 35px Horizontal menu below the header had a small error where the buttons were too small.
This error has been fixed for V1.1.6.
The horizontal menus are in the process of being completely re-designed and will be released in a future update.
Updates for 1.1.6
Background Images: Adding background colour gradients caused an error in MSIE. MSIE prevented background images from being displayed properly whilst there was a colour gradient actve. As a result the background colour gradient was removed for MSIE. However, a set of 4 images has now been added to simulate the colour gradient (top, right, bttom, left) and bypass the MSIE error.
Font Family: A Georgia fornt family has now been added and made the default fonty family (it displays better on compputer screens). This brings the total font families up to 20.
Heading Shadows: Shadows have now been added to headings in content and sidebar areas (h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6) to make them look better.
Menu Capitalisation (Deluxe Versions Only): Menu button text can now be altered to show 5 different Capitalisations (Normal, First Letter Of Each Word Capitalised, All Lower case, First letter of each word is in Large Capital all others are Small Capitals, All Letters Upper Case). This has not been included in The lite versions.
Scripts: Active Bar 2 jquery script and snippet added to the theme.
Options Theme 'Lite'
As a result of customer comments about the price of the latest Options theme versions, 2 new 'Lite' versions have been created,
They are 'full' versions (now renamed 'Deluxe') with 23 non-essential style types removed (reducing them to 20 style types).
As a result these themes are now compatable with RW4+. They are on sale for $10 AU each.
Below is a comparison of the features when compared with the 'Deluxe' versions:
The Full Navigation version cannot be converted to the Normal Navigation version or visa versa.
The Normal Navigation versionhas 6 Vertical Indented menus and the Full Navigation version has 8 Pop-Out menu systems.
The 20 CSS style types are:
There are also 66 colour picker variations:
Other feauures include:
They are 'full' versions (now renamed 'Deluxe') with 23 non-essential style types removed (reducing them to 20 style types).
As a result these themes are now compatable with RW4+. They are on sale for $10 AU each.
Below is a comparison of the features when compared with the 'Deluxe' versions:
| 'Deluxe' Normal Nav | 'Deluxe' Full Nav | 'Lite' Normal Nav | 'Lite' Full Nav | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | $20 AU | $20 AU | $10 AU | $10 AU |
| Style Types | 43 | 43 | 20 | 20 |
| Style Variations | 548 | 548 | 280 | 280 |
| Colour Pickers | 80 | 80 | 66 | 66 |
| Vertical Indented Menus | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Vertical Pop-Out Menus | 8 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Horizontal Pull Down Menus | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Additional Tiled Images | 370+ | 370+ | 0 | 0 |
The Full Navigation version cannot be converted to the Normal Navigation version or visa versa.
The Normal Navigation versionhas 6 Vertical Indented menus and the Full Navigation version has 8 Pop-Out menu systems.
The 20 CSS style types are:
- jQuery Scripts (10),
- Top Margin (15),
- Container Border (6),
- Width (21 fixed, 4 variable) (25),
- Background -Tiled mages (23),
- Background - RWMultitool (12),
- Curved or Square Containers (6),
- Font Family (19),
- Extra Content Containers (13),
- Header Height (14),
- Header Location (3),
- Header Images - Other (8),
- Header Images - RWMultitool (10),
- EasySlider Header Slideshow Effects (76),
- Logo Alignment (6),
- Title - Slogan Alignment (3),
- Title Font Size (11),
- Slogan Font Size (11),
- Menu - Sidebar Locations (13),
- Vertical Pop-Out Menus (8)
- Footer Location (3),
- Credit AA Site Designs (1),
- Extra Content Containers (24),
- Global Colours (25),
- Menu Colour (17),
- Web-Site Translation Script (33 Languages)
- Logo Linked to Web-Site URL,
Options Theme Version 1.1.5
V1.1.5 Of the Options theme introduces a couple of new features and fixes a few errors in V1.1.4.
V1.1.4 Errors Corrected
Title/Slogan Capitalisation: If the Title or Slogan Effects were set at the "No Effects" (default value) then the Title or Slogan Capitalisation would not work. If any other effects (shadow or glow) were chosen then the capitalisation would work. This has now been fixed.
Colour Fault in MSIE: Colours for V1.1.4 were reverting to default colours in some areas when viewed in MSIE. This occured when some MSIE colourtag values had not been converted to top and botttom colours when colour gradients were introduced. This has now been fixed.
FAQMaker Sidebar Questions List: The default list was appearing in the middle of the sidebar instead of near the left hand side. This has now been fixed.
Updates/New Styles:
V1.1.4 Errors Corrected
Title/Slogan Capitalisation: If the Title or Slogan Effects were set at the "No Effects" (default value) then the Title or Slogan Capitalisation would not work. If any other effects (shadow or glow) were chosen then the capitalisation would work. This has now been fixed.
Colour Fault in MSIE: Colours for V1.1.4 were reverting to default colours in some areas when viewed in MSIE. This occured when some MSIE colourtag values had not been converted to top and botttom colours when colour gradients were introduced. This has now been fixed.
FAQMaker Sidebar Questions List: The default list was appearing in the middle of the sidebar instead of near the left hand side. This has now been fixed.
Updates/New Styles:
- Sidebar Line Height: 11 heights up to 2.0em (32px)
- Content Line Height: 11 heights up to 2.0em (32px)
Adam Merrifield and Seydoggy
A big thank you to Adam Merrifield from Seydoggy for his help with some jquery scripting errors and extra container problems that cropped up in the development of V1.1.4.
Without his help this update would have taken a lot longer to release.
Without his help this update would have taken a lot longer to release.
Rapidweaver 5 And The Options Theme
Rapidweaver version 5 now allows the consolidation (joining together) and compression of CSS files. This much requested feature has been added due to the fact that MSIE does not allow more than 32 CSS Style requests per page. This has restricted many theme developers from adding much wanted Style Features to their themes. Now that this restriction has been lifted theme developers can add as many new CSS Styles to their themes as they want. It willl also reduce the load time of any web-page due to the fact that not as many files are requested.
Previously a special style set had to be used for WeaverFM and WeaverPics plugins because they cause the total amount of CSS page links to total more than 32. This caused an error when these pages were displayed in MSIE. However with CSS page consolidation in RW5 these should now work flawlessly.
IMPORTANT: FOR THIS THEME TO WORK PROPERLY WITH MSIE PLEASE ENSURE THAT THE "CONSOLIDATE CSS FILES" BOX IS CHECKED IN THE RAPIDWEAVER PREFERENCES
Options Theme Version 1.1.4
V1.1.4 of the options theme has been designed to take advantage of significant improvements in Rapidweaver 5. These improvements have now allowed the options theme to have more than the 25 style types maximum in previous Rapidweaver versions.
This version of the Options theme is for users of Rapidweaver Version 5+. Users of earlier Rapidweaver versions should stick with Version 1.1.3.
Updates are as follows:
* Extra Content Containers were introduced in version 1.1.3. Unfortunately MSIE displayed some of these containers even when there was nothing in them. The containers displayed were 1,2,3,7,11. This has been fixed in version 1.1.4.
Users of Version 1.1.3 can hide these containers by going to the "Page Info/Header/CSS" tab and entering the following code:
For single containers:
For multiple containers:
** Please be aware that if two light opacity sections (such as sidebar and extra content containers 4-9) overlap make sure the one on top transparent otherwise it will appear much darker.
This version of the Options theme is for users of Rapidweaver Version 5+. Users of earlier Rapidweaver versions should stick with Version 1.1.3.
Updates are as follows:
- Display Hidden Containers Style (*several extra content containers were causing graphic glitches in MSIE and had to be hidden). This has also allowed the top margin to be simplified.
- Opacity (with dark, light and transparent styles) has been introduced to 19 areas (including extra content containers).**This makes a total of 57 variations.
- Colour Gradients have been created for most areas of the page (background, header, sidebar, content, menu buttons, footer)
- Header / Footer Location split up into "Header Location" and "Footer Location" to make it simpler to use.
- Page Widths have been increased from 12 to 21 Fixed and from 2 to 4 Variable sizes.
- Rapidalbum Images Effects to thumbnails and the thumbnail containers
- Title Capitalisation (Normal, Capitalise, Lowercase Small Capitals, Uppercase)
- Title Effects (4 levels of Glow and 4 levels of Shadow)
- Slogan Capitalisation (Normal, Capitalise, Lowercase Small Capitals, Uppercase)
- Slogan Effects (4 levels of Glow and 4 levels of Shadow)
- Content can now have up to 5 columns
- Sidebar Header Font Align
- Sidebar Content Font Align
- HR Line variations (8)
* Extra Content Containers were introduced in version 1.1.3. Unfortunately MSIE displayed some of these containers even when there was nothing in them. The containers displayed were 1,2,3,7,11. This has been fixed in version 1.1.4.
Users of Version 1.1.3 can hide these containers by going to the "Page Info/Header/CSS" tab and entering the following code:
For single containers:
For multiple containers:
** Please be aware that if two light opacity sections (such as sidebar and extra content containers 4-9) overlap make sure the one on top transparent otherwise it will appear much darker.