Options Theme Version 1.1.7
24/10/11 12:33
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
14/08/11 12:33
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'
19/06/11 10:37
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
23/05/11 11:10
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
17/04/11 08:10
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
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 1.1.4
15/04/11 21:15
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.
Options Theme Version 1.1.3
18/11/10 21:14
This update is aimed at adding some new features:
- A slideshow script called easyslider has replaced the old "Random Image Rotator" Script. This script allows you to choose several header images and animate them with the transition/slideshow of your choice. It also makes it easier to add the images.
- There are now 25 EasySlider transition/slideshow effects for the Page Header. Each transition type has 3 speeds (for a total of 75 transitions).
- The "Random Image Rotator" Script can still be used as it has been moved to a snippet.
- A total of 11 Extra Content Containers have been added to the Header, Sidebar, Content and Footer. Content for these containers can easily be added in the sidebar.
- Ads containers above and below header have been converted to extra content containers.
- Theme version information added to styles tab instead of in the theme name. Style settings will no longer have to be re-entered when updating to new theme versions.
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.
Payloom Update
01/03/10 18:50
We have just completed an update for customers purchasing the "Options Theme" via the "Payloom" plug-in. After the payment has been made a "Username" and "Password" password are generated and displayed along with a download link for the theme. Click on the link and type in the "Username" and "Password" to download the theme. Hopefully, this should make purchasing a little easier.
All this should happen automatically. If you are unable to download the theme please contact us immediately and we will e-mail the theme to you.
Thermite
All this should happen automatically. If you are unable to download the theme please contact us immediately and we will e-mail the theme to you.
Thermite