Week in Review: February 3rd- 9th

In case you missed it...

Plugin Announcements
CoverFlow
Work continues on this plugin and is now available at version 0.6.2.

Theme Announcements
Theme 010
The newest release from Theme Weaver.

OHM 1.1.2
A minor but important update to the Rapid Ideas theme.

Gothic 3.0.1
Another theme update from Rapid Ideas.

Week in Review: January 27th - February 2nd

In case you missed it...

Plugin Announcements
Accordion 1.3.1
The outstanding Accordion plugin has been updated with the latest version of Mootools.

Carousel 1.2 Beta 2
This update to the beta corrects a bug relating to Internet Explorer.

FlexibleList 1.0.2
This update is mostly bug fixes with one new feature supporting Blocks pageblocks.

PageTOC Update
This update adds the smooth scrolling feature as an option.

CoverFlow
Progress continues on this awesome plugin which is now at version 0.6.

RapidGuestbookTdb
This version of the guestbook plugin functions without a MySQL database.

Theme Announcements
Headliner
RapidWeaver Themes has updated this theme to be fully compatible with RW 3.6.

Golden Gate
Michel Honold releases another free theme.

Alpha Theme Update
RealMac has updated its built-in Alpha theme, fixing an Internet Explorer issue.

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.

Week in Review: December 10th-16th

In cased you missed it...

Plugin Announcements
RapidGuestbook 1.1 update
v1.1 of RapidGuestbook has been released. Updates include more security, anti-spam, labels for each field and some general fixes.

Kwix Public Beta
YourHead's Kwix plugin is still in Public Beta and Isaiah has provided good information on the plugin in this thread.

Blocks Beta 3
Isaiah has been busy releasing beta versions of Blocks. These updates mainly address issues related to Page Blocks.

Theme Announcements
Bionicle
Will Woodgate and idotter.ch have released a new theme called Bionicle. The theme offers many variations and is available with a $2.00 discount until the end of the year with coupon code BIONICLERELEASE.

Squeeze
One of our favorite RW community members, Sundog, has released his first theme. Squeeze is a minimalistic theme with many options, including a Splash page. Thanks to Larry's amazing speed in all things, the theme is already available as a Version 2 release.

Bloop! update
seyDesign has updated its Bloop! theme. This patch fixes a javascript issue in the HTML template that would not allow external URLs to open in a new window.

Diamond update
Rapid Ideas has released and upated to its Diamond theme. This update adds a number of features, including: custom colors for the navbar in the sidebar, styling of the blog cloud tags, implementation of the pngfix javascript file for IE6/Win and other IE improvements.

Jumsoft Themes
Jumsoft has continued to update its themes that were first introduced in the previous Week in Review. The update includes Movie Album support, support for float image left or right, colorpicker support and the ability to choose font family and size. Initial response from owners of the themes is positive, but there still appears to be a bit of work left to do before these themes are completely ready. We will keep potential buyers up-to-date with the progress.

Week in review: December 3rd-9th

This is the start of a weekly installment covering the announcements and popular subjects in the RapidWeaver community for the previous week. Commentary on each subject will be brief, with in-depth reviews of new releases posted separately in the near future. So, in case you missed it...

Plugin Announcements

RapidTable
A new plugin from Dominique of MEGE-SERVICES, RapidTable displays a MySQL table on your website. Look for more information on this great plugin in the near future here at RapidWeaved!

RapidGuestBook
Another new plugin from Dominique of MEGE-SERVICES, RapidGuestBook adds a simple guestbook to your website. The plugin uses PHP and MySQL.

RapidAlbum 1.0.2 update
Scott has updated his popular RapidAlbum plugin to version 1.0.2, fixing a problem importing Caption metadata and adding support for a new metadata token.

Kwix Public Beta

Isaiah at YourHead has been busy once again with a new plugin that is sure to be an instant success! This one is called Kwix and utilizes the MooTools JavaScript framework to create ultra-cool animated menus. It is now available as a Public Beta. Look for more information on this plugin in the near future here at RapidWeaved!

Theme Announcements

EZ 4 and EZ 5 from RapidWeaverThemes
Gary at RapidWeaverThemes has been busy lately with a number of new themes. EZ 4 and EZ 5 are minimalist themes with tons of variations to help you make your website unique.

Flashy from RapidWeaverThemes
In addition to EZ 4 and EZ 5, Gary has announced something completely new in Flashy. This theme will allow you to easily add a custom Flash banner to your website. The theme hasn't been released just yet, but we'll let you know when it's available for purchase!

Jumsoft Themes
Jumsoft has joined the RapidWeaver developer community with its release of 3 RapidWeaver themes: Mental Image, Patronage and Rainbow. The previews are very promising, but be warned that these aren't quite up to RapidWeaver 3.6 standards, yet. Jumsoft has been progressing with theme updates and we hope to see great things from them soon!

Miscellaneous

Graphics Chat
In other news, the RealMac Forum has added a new forum section called Graphics Chat. This should prove to be a valuable addition as RapidWeaver users share their knowledge of graphics and links to online resources.

That does it for the first installment of the weekly digest. More to come next week!