Tabouli PRO Update Released

September 17, 2008

It’s Ready

Hello folks. I’ve got good news today – the Tabouli PRO update is ready. You can log in to your account and download it now. This version is labeled 4.0 to keep in line with Rapidweaver’s release number, although I don’t believe you have to have RW 4 to use this version of the theme. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe I had it working on 3.6 as well.

Please review this article to learn about all the new features of Tabouli PRO.

Please keep a back-up copy of your old version of Tabouli if you think you may hate the new one :)

Thank You

First a sincere thank you to all of you who contributed so much in terms of ideas and test feedback. Your collaboration is the best part about all this and we all end up with something we really like in the end. So thank you, again.

Demos

Going forward, the Tabouli PRO demo and the Tabouli Standard demo will be separated. I do have an update for the standard version, but I won’t get to that until later this week.

Tabouli PRO Architecture Change

If you caught my last post about Tabouli, you know that I tossed out all of the images that produced the round corners. The new version of Tabouli produces round corners using CSS which 1) makes for a significantly lighter theme in terms of bandwidth and 2) allows you to specify any color tabs you want. Previously you were limited to the colors I created for you. Right now, CSS round corners ARE supported by everyone except Microsoft and Opera. In IE and Opera, the corners will appear square, at least until they start supporting round corners too.

Options

Okay, here’s the dealio with options. I’ve received a lot of feedback about this topic. The conclusion we all seem to draw here is that RW options are a double-edged sword. On one hand, options make a theme highly customizable and everyone wants that. On the other hand, they can bloat the code to a certain degree because every option requires its own CSS file. Hum…

Listening to all your feedback and I’ve trimmed out numerous options and left only those that were most desirable. With that said, there are still countless options including over 120 color options :-O

The following images are images of the theme’s options inspector. I’ve broken the options into logical sections to make management of your style easier. Intuitively I, and every single tester, forgets to click the section headings in this inspector. You’ll think it’s just a heading, but it’s not – there are options in there too! So click those.

The images should illustrate every option available.