Comments on: Aerolite for RapidWeaver Released

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:18:32 +0000

Yeah I am so done with IE6. It prevents you from doing a lot of stuff. For RapidWeaver, this is partly why those themes have remained relatively basic all this time – IE6 doesn’t allow you to do anything creative. Therefore I may not even support it. If I can get it to produce a simpler version of the theme (meaning you lose some options to make it work for that browser) then I will. But if it costs the best parts of the theme simply to appease that browser, sorry, no way. Time to die IE.

By: Jamie Kelley

Jamie Kelley — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:07:35 +0000

BTW, really appreciated your heads-up on IE6. It’s been driving me bonkers trying to make sites compliant. No idea that it was 7 years old.

I downloaded and installed IE7, wishfully thinking that it might be better…

By: Suzanne Boben

Suzanne Boben — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:59:20 +0000

Jamie clear your cache. The link is good, you probably are looking at an old cached version of the page.

By: Jamie Kelley

Jamie Kelley — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:55:07 +0000

Hey Suz:
I’ve got the Aerolite RW pre-release but I’m having some trouble upgrading it to your final release. When I try to purchase it, your store recognizes that I’ve already bought it and when I go to the Aerolite RW page and click on the download pkg, I get a bad link.

I’d enjoy getting upgraded to the final release cause it’s a skookum theme and I’m building a site that could use it as we speak.

Jamie

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:54:39 +0000

Hey Mathew… great to hear from you again. Yes Lightside is actually really close. It is not as complex as Aerolite because there’s no fixed height header to battle with on that one.

Regarding threaded comments in RB… no idea there. That’s one to pose to the developer of that plug-in. I can’t imagine it’s all that hard. For WordPress, they just spit out the comments in UL format with the threads as nested UL’s and a class of children. The RB guy would just have to do the same I think.

I’m going to make WordPress versions of my themes so if you’re really wanting to go big time, switch to using WP. In your line of work I would think you’d love the features. I’m getting pretty good with writing the PHP now. Will post some of my solutions at this site in coming days.

By: Mathew

Mathew — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:32:31 +0000

Congratulations! Aerolite looks great. Might have to get me a copy! Is Lightside far behind in terms of a final release?

On a completely different note, Is there any way we can embed this type of threaded commenting with RW? I specifically use RapidBlog (which connects to Blogger) when I want commenting. But I’d be interesting in learning how to do this threaded discussion with either the regular RW blog pages or RapidBlog.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:10:29 +0000

I see it yes. I attend to mail in chunks. Otherwise it can severely disrupt your ability to get anything done.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:08:38 +0000

Thank you, I have a little time in the next week to play around… so I’ll see what I come up with. I’d like to find something that’s drag and drop and looks great… basically my cake and eat it too for the price of an ice cream! :)

By: Kari

Kari — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:04:26 +0000

Ryan, the smugmug is not a plug-in. I am just linking to my smugmug site. I used the Aerolite design elements to make my smugmug header. (Don’t ask me how right now…. it took a while to get it right and I don’t remember what all I had to do.)

As you may have surmised from my comments, I am not fully set on what I have right now. As I work more with it, I hope to come up with a better solution.

By: Kari

Kari — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:00:24 +0000

I like the threaded comments. Makes it easier to follow a discussion.