Earlier this week, seyDoggy released the totally rebuilt Bubblegum RapidWeaver theme from Med Designs giving a new breath of life with bags more features and options. Some of the highlights are complete color flexibility (which it lacked previously), 3 tier, split navigation and of course our very favorite, 2 ExtraContent areas.
Hopefully we can get a preview movie this week or next to demonstrate those ExtraContent areas in action, time permitting of course. Check out the new Med Designs Bubblegum in all it’s new feature glory here.
Some time ago, Gary at RWT released a theme, H3, that gave users a way to have a truly usable 3 column layout in RapidWeaver. The manner in which is was done was a little complex to the uninitiated though. Since the arrival of ExtraContent, however, it only makes sense that Gary would update H3 to utilize ExtraContent to propagate this 3 column and that’s exactly what he did.
You can check out the new H3 here, and take a look at the tutorial movies. Take an especially close look at this movie, which demonstrates how you can use ExtraContent to make a search bar in your sites header.
Another developer has joined the ranks of those who have ExtraContent enabled themes. Jonathan Head of NimbleHost has added a third RapidWeaver theme, Unity, to their lineup, this one now with ExtraContent in 5 different places. I can’t tell you how thrilling it is to see the uptake of ExtraContent like this.
YOu can learn more about Unity here, see the demo here or join the discussion here.