Theme Instructions
This section should help you to get the most from using the Options theme. If you have any questions feel free to use the contact form to ask them.Rapidweaver 5 And The Options Theme
The reason that themes could not have more than 25 CSS Style types was that:
- Rapidweaver normally uses 4 CSS Style sheets,
- Plug-ins also used 1 or more CSS Style sheets
- Users often added their own CSS styles via the Page info/Header/CSS tab
Rapidweaver version 5 now allows the consolidation (joining together) and compression of CSS files. Now that this feature has been added the MSIE 32 CSS Style limit no longer applies. 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 will also reduce the load time of any web-page due to the fact that not as many files are requested.
IMPORTANT: FOR THIS THEME TO WORK PROPERLY WITH MSIE PLEASE ENSURE THAT THE "CONSOLIDATE CSS FILES" BOX IS CHECKED IN THE RAPIDWEAVER PREFERENCES
All Options Pro Versions are made specifically for Rapidweaver 5+.
All Optios (Normal) versions work with both Rapidweaver 4 and Rapidweaver 5 but have much fewer style types.
Rapidweaver 5 And Adding Assets To A Web Page
As of version 5 of Rapidweaver all additional page assets (directories, pictures, documents, audio, movies etc.) are consolidated. This can save a lot of space and reduce bandwidth for users when downloading different pages. The reason is that once a page is downloaded any re-used assets in subsequent pages should already be in the users cache and not be downloaded again. All you do is drag and drop your assets into the "Resources" section located below the webpages in the left hand side ot Rapidweaver. Then direct all of your absolute filepaths to the resources directory (located in the root directory) of your web-site. There are examples below (header images 1 and 2).Now, even if you assets do not appear in your preview screen they should appear in the actual web-page (if you got the absolute filepath correct).