Rapidweaver 5 And The Options Theme
15/04/11 22:07
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 1.1.2
31/08/10 21:13
This update is aimed specifically at fixing 2 MSIE faults.
The first occurs when using MSIE 6 to display any page created with Options theme and the second occurs when any version of MSIE displays weaverFM (v1.1.0) or WeaverPix pages created with the Options theme.
MSIE 6
Previously whenever MSIE 6 displayed any page created with the Options theme the letters were always huge. This was caused because the body font size was set to 1.3em (which equals 21px). From the looks of it MSIE 6 cannot correctly display "em" font sizes so, the quickest and easiest fix was to replace the "1.3 em" font-size with "21px". MSIE 6 now displays the correct font size.
WeaverFM and WeaverPix
This fault happens because MSIE can only display 32 CSS style links in a page. For most themes this would not be a problem but the Options theme has:
This brings the total of CSS Style links to 33 (or 36 for WeaverPix) which is far more than MSIE can read and display (Stupid bloody program). So, in an effort to make this program happy it has been decided to de-activate the default settings from 5 CSS Style sheets. The style sheets affected are:
If you want to use any of these style sheets and a weaverFM or WeaverPix page in your site then:
Your WeaverFM/WeaverPix page will now look like the rest of your web-site but the de-activated styles will not be written to the actual pages.
You can now activate the "de-activated" styles for the rest of your web-site.
The first occurs when using MSIE 6 to display any page created with Options theme and the second occurs when any version of MSIE displays weaverFM (v1.1.0) or WeaverPix pages created with the Options theme.
MSIE 6
Previously whenever MSIE 6 displayed any page created with the Options theme the letters were always huge. This was caused because the body font size was set to 1.3em (which equals 21px). From the looks of it MSIE 6 cannot correctly display "em" font sizes so, the quickest and easiest fix was to replace the "1.3 em" font-size with "21px". MSIE 6 now displays the correct font size.
WeaverFM and WeaverPix
This fault happens because MSIE can only display 32 CSS style links in a page. For most themes this would not be a problem but the Options theme has:
- 25 CSS style links (26 if you display the AA Site Designs credit), and
- 1 CSS iepngfix.htc link (for MSIE6) in the index.html page.
- 4 standard Rapidweaver CSS style links (colourtag.css, handheld.css, print.css, styles.css)
This brings the total of CSS Style links to 33 (or 36 for WeaverPix) which is far more than MSIE can read and display (Stupid bloody program). So, in an effort to make this program happy it has been decided to de-activate the default settings from 5 CSS Style sheets. The style sheets affected are:
- Ads
- Credit AA Site Designs
- Menu Icons
- File Sharing Icons
- File Sharing Styles
If you want to use any of these style sheets and a weaverFM or WeaverPix page in your site then:
- Click the "Load Custom Style" button (the folder button at bottm of the Styles Tab) and load the "Weaver Plugins" from the Built-in Styles configuration
- Configure your site the way you want (without selecting the de-activated Styles) and click the "Save Custom Styles" buttonconfiguration (the cog button located at bottom of the Styles Tab). This saves a copy of your website configuration for the weaver plugins to use.
- Select the WeaverFM/WeaverPix page,
- Click on the "Applies to this page only" button (located at the bottom left of the Styles Tab),
- Load the Custom Style that you just saved. This prevents the de-acivated styled from.
Your WeaverFM/WeaverPix page will now look like the rest of your web-site but the de-activated styles will not be written to the actual pages.
You can now activate the "de-activated" styles for the rest of your web-site.
Options Theme Version 1.1.1
23/08/10 21:13
This update fixes a few errors in version 1.1.0.
- 2 Logo Positions (left and right 20px from top) were accidentally moved behind the Title and Slogan and appeared to not be linked to the website url.
- The text areas in the contact form plugin showed the "Lucida Grande" font instead of the correct "font family" style.
- External page links to new pages opened the link without opening new pages.
- A new rotating header script has now been installed. This means that the Rapidalbum Greybox Template now works.
Options Theme Version 1.1.0
05/08/10 21:12
This update is mainly to correct some small errors that have crept in.
- The number of tiled backgrounds has been increased to 22 and they have all been named.
- Google Translation script and translation icons have now been added to the bottom of the page. To translate your page to another language just click on the icons.
- Several more menus have been added
Options Theme Version 1.0.9
06/06/10 21:10
This update is mainly to correct some small errors that have crept in.
This update will be released as soon as testing has been completed.
- We have discovered that the random header script causes faults with the Greybox Rapidalbum Template.
We are looking for a new Random Header Image script that will not interfere with Greybox. - SmoothGallery Rapidalbum Template has been updated to allow size customisations in display (See CSS Code, Hints And Tips).
- Corrected image display errors that were occurring in several other Rapidalbum Templates.
- Replaced Social Bookmarks with addthis Social Bookmarks.
- Added a 6th horizontal menu.
This update will be released as soon as testing has been completed.
Options Theme Version 1.0.8
24/05/10 21:09
- Theme updated to be compatible with RWMultitool. All editable images have now been placed in the "images/Editable_Images" directory.
- 1 more Horizontal Menu added. There are now 5 Horiziontal Menus and 9 vertical menus.
Options Theme Version 1.0.7
20/05/10 21:08
- 2 more Horizontal Menus added. There are now 4 Horiziontal Menus and 9 vertical menus.
Options Theme Version 1.0.6
16/05/10 21:07
- Menu colours in colourtag.css file fixed. Colours of buttons and button borders match better.
- Menu system and all menus completely re-written so that new menus can be added much easier.
- 2 Horizontal menus (25px and 35px in height) added. Menus work either above or below the header.
Options Theme Version 1.0.5
14/05/10 21:05
- Menu icons tidied up.
- Button border colours corrected so that they automatically adjust depending on button colour.
- Theme Copyright notice in footer
can now be switched off with CSS Code:
Options Theme Version 1.0.4
02/05/10 21:03
- Fixed Header height of 125px. It was set to default of 100px
- Fixed title font size errors (40px and 48px)
- Fixed slogan font size errors (22px)
- Fixed menu icons that appeared to display incorrectly in MSIE
- Added several new menu icons.
Options Theme Version 1.0.3
28/04/10 21:02
- Fixed faulty menus.
- Fixed Ads text colour fault.
- Added several more menu types.
- Added menu button border colour.
- Fixed menu icons.
- Fixed Logo/URL link failure caused by adding rotating headers.
- Fixed default header / footer location error.
- Fixed rotating header Image bug for 900px width.
- Fixed minor graphic bugs.
- Shadows added to 'File Sharing' items
Options Theme Version 1.0.2
01/04/10 21:01
Added Rotating Header Images to Options Theme.
Options Theme Version 1.0.1
05/03/10 20:39
- Added a second advertisement position below header.
- Changed advertisement heights to 25px and 50px .
Menu Behaviours
05/03/10 20:38
There are two types of the Options theme One displayes full navigation and the other one does not. Vertical indented menus are best suited for the "normal" type of the Options theme. These menus show the next sub-menu only after the parent menu button has been clicked.
For other menu types like pop-up, drop down and pop-out menus, which often look / function better if the full list of sub-menu pages are viewable when hovering the mouse pointer over the main/root menu, you should choose the "display full navigation version".
Click Converting The Theme For instructions on how to convert the theme from one version to the other.
For other menu types like pop-up, drop down and pop-out menus, which often look / function better if the full list of sub-menu pages are viewable when hovering the mouse pointer over the main/root menu, you should choose the "display full navigation version".
Click Converting The Theme For instructions on how to convert the theme from one version to the other.
Cluster Map Added
05/03/10 18:57
We have decided to add a clustrmap to the sidebar. This should give some indication of the amount of traffic coming to this web-site.
Since the "Options Theme" went on sale 2 weeks ago there have been around 7000 page loads.
Since the "Options Theme" went on sale 2 weeks ago there have been around 7000 page loads.