Month in Review: December 18th - January 18th

The Christmas and New Year's holidays, along with a recent bout with the flu, has prevented me from my regular weekly posting of the latest RapidWeaver news. Nothing seems to have prevented the developers from working hard over the past month, though! So in an attempt to play catch-up, here is a list of the most important announcements from the past month.

Plugin Announcements
CoverFlow
This awesome new release from Varsis Studio is still in beta, but it has a very promising future in the RW community. Based on Apple's CoverFlow feature in iTunes and Leopard, this plugin will add some great style to your RW website.

Carousel 1.2 Beta
YourHead has released a beta update to its popular Carousel plugin. This update includes the newest build of Mootools and adds some additional support.

Kwix 1.0
Kwix comes out of beta with its first full release. This plugin utilizes the Mootools javascript library to create stylish animated menus. See further down in this post for info on Kwix Styles.

Blocks 3.1.0
Isaiah must never rest! This release of Blocks is described as a "culmination of many refinements," with more details available at the YourHead Blog.

RapidForum and RapidIframe
Dominique has developed a couple of new plugins, with RapidForum being the answer to a widely requested plugin for some time now. It utilizes the PBLang forum and is an easy solution for integrating a forum into your RW website.

FlexibleList
Nilrog has created a new plugin that allows the user to organize content into a list, with many advanced options available to make it more powerful.

RapidAlbum 1.0.3
The update to this very popular plugin squashes a number of bugs and adds the LightWindow template as a new option.

Theme Announcements

Theme 009 from Theme Weaver

Theme 008 from Theme Weaver

Sandwich and Sandwich Slider from Henk

3isles from Henk

Element Theme Series from GWDI

Slix and Pinewood from GWDI

DC Agency 1.7 from Dave Cantu

Gleam from weaverthemes

seyDoggy viEw 3.6

Jay Strip from New Ending Studios

Hamburg from Michael Honold

Indian Summer from Michael Honold

Gras 2 from Michael Honold

Coffee from Michael Honold

Blueball High Def Colors 36

Blueball Paradox 36


Miscellaneous

Adam at Elixir Graphics has released some new icon packages as well as launching the new website The Icon Lab. Free icons and stock icons will be available there -- they should be great additions to most any website created with RapidWeaver.

In other design news, YourHead's Kwix plugin has received some nice Kwix Styles -- graphics used to style the Kwix menu. These styles can be found here, here, here and here. Some of these are available for free from 3rd-party sources, while others are for purchase -- including some official styles from YourHead.