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RWT releases Mello with 4 ExtraContent areas

seyDoggy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:07:06 +0000

Not sure how we missed this one back on February 6th, but it looks like Gary at RapidWeaverThemes.com unveiled a brand new theme to the RapidWeaver forums called Mello. Mellow appears to have 4 ExtraContent areas, one in the header, one in the sidebar, one below the content and one in the footer area.

Robbies Falcon Pro uses ExtraContent for headers!

seyDoggy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:45:34 +0000

Yesterday, Robbie White launched his latest foray into RapidWeaver theme development with an ambitious theme, Falcon Pro, that sports not only ExtraContent, but a slew of other features as well. One note worth mentioning here is his innovative use of the ExtraContent method to create custom headers for your projects, with a little help from YourHead Blocks and Loghound Pluskit.

Blocks Header Design in Falcon Pro w/PlusKit

Falcon Pro Header Titles Image design in Blocks

Henk releases ExtraContent enabled “Magazine”

seyDoggy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:25:16 +0000

Earlier this week, Henk Vrieselaar released another addition to the ExtraContent enabled theme field with his latest release, Magazine. Sporting what looks like two ExtraContent areas and a metric butt-load of other options, Magazine looks like it’s packed and ready for action.

We haven’t seen any screen casts from Henk yet, but if we do you can be sure they will get posted here.

ExtraContent is not scary!

seyDoggy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:48:40 +0000

When you release a new technology or a different way of doing things there will always be those who embrace it and those who balk at it. One thing that helps ensure a higher proportion of the former to the latter is educating the masses as best you can.

This is one such example. In previous movies we’ve talked about all of the REALLY cool things you can do, hoping that the innate RapidWeaver functions abilities would have been obvious. In some respects, we were wrong in that assumption so I am taking this opportunity to back it up a notch, go back to RapidWeaver basics and show you that you can use an ExtraContent enabled theme just as you would any other. In addition, we show you that it doesn’t take a coding wizard to employ the ExtraContent features.

Just watch and see. You’ll be amazed at how easy it is. There is also a large version of this movie if you prefer.

ExtraContent is not scary from Adam Merrifield on Vimeo.

ExtraContent.info Launches Community Service

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:25:30 +0000

seyDoggy launches ExtraContent.info, a community based site designed to help promote the usage of ExtraContent in content management systems. We hope to be able to share many tutorials, tips and tricks when using ExtraContent.

But we don’t want to do it alone! Are you a developer or enthusiast using ExtraContent? Why not help us out? Make movies, write tutorials, promote your ExtraContent enabled product… it doesn’t matter, we will welcome the help. Get in touch with me by submitting a post to the ExtraContent Google Group.

Until then, stay tuned. We have more coming down the pipe!