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Henk's Out Of The Box

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    his time Henk's gone totally out of the box with his latest RapidWeaver theme. Now you can add a fast loading full page dynamic background image to your webpage which expands to fit your browser window.

    The theme has up to 6 ExtraContent areas and comes with a download link for 100 Extra background images... but you can add your own too of course!

    Here are some of the theme styles:

    • 11 different widths with different positions of Title and Slogan
      Wide or Small Title Stroke
      Option for a backgroundimage or color and a transparant film over the Content in any color
      5 different top stroke heights
      Different Title and Slogan looks
      Different fonts
      Many color picker features

    and much much more: you can check out all the Theme Styles here and if you want to see the theme in action you can preview it here.
    And of course if you're subscribed to Henk's newsletter, then you'll have already receieved your discount code for the theme. (And if you haven't subscribed yet, what are you waiting for?)

Intergalactic Resource Train

60% Off Workman Video Stacks Pack

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    s some of you may know, Joe Workman hit the big THREE-O this week. At least that's his story. Anyway, he's celebrating by offering you all a couple of goodies...

    Until Tuesday his Video Stacks Pack will be available for 60% off over at MacZot!

    As Joe puts it: "The Video Stacks pack now has 18 awesome video stacks to choose from. It has all of the major video sharing site, as well as many specialized sites as well. It's never been as easy as with these stacks to get video onto your website! So if you don’t yet have this awesome set of stacks, now is your chance!"

    Birthday Sale!

    And as if the MacZot sale wasn't sweet enough, Joe's extending the sale over to his site where he's offering 25% off his entire store! All you have to do is use the discount code Happy30th at checkout. That's it.

    But hurry... the sale ends at the same time as the MacZot sale — 9.00 PM (PST) August 3rd.

Image Magnifier

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    agnified images speak much louder than mere images that speak words. Which is a fancy way of saying Greg Barchard's just released his first stack. It's called Image Magnifier.

    It's a stack that magnifies images. It allows the user to zoom in on images for a closer look. Which means it's ideal for product pages and art galleries and all those images you would like your visitors to examine in more detail. It does what it says on the tin and it does it extremely well. If only all stacks were so easy to use and worked first time.

    You can find a live demo and additional details here.
    Or you can buy a copy here: http://www.barchard.net/store

New Rapid Ideas Theme

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    he Rapid Ideas Revolution Has Begun — Christophe has just released his latest theme, Modulo2, and I think it's safe to say you haven't seen a theme like this before.

    This is how Christophe describes it:

    "Modulo2 is a very complex and feature rich theme. The main idea was to create a theme where the content is loaded asynchronously via AJAX. In private projects I always found it very difficult to include an audio player to a page which keeps playing when you browse to a different page. While developing the theme the possibilities became endless: now you not only can load your RW project pages via AJAX, you can load many other external pages into your content. The internet hub became reality. For example you can include your WordPress blog into your page and so into your page design and layout."

    There already are many features included in Modulo2 and I will constantly add more during the development. Here are the most important features of Modulo2 right now:

    • AJAX Page Load: No more page reloads and you can include other external sites into your RW project
    • Adding your own Background Images is a very easy drag n’ drop operation. If you add more than 1 image, a slideshow is automatically created. The background images can be automatically scaled to fill the full browser window and will resize when the window resizes
    • Accordion Effect Included: Creating accordions in Modulo2 is very easy as you only have to define h2 header titles for it to work
    • Create Rotating Banners and Slideshows: With some simple code (snippet included) you can add rotating banners and slideshows to your pages. You can also configure it the way you want
    • The Control Box: This fixed-when-scolling, fading and draggable box is the core center of your site: per default the sidebar and navigation is included but it is very easy to add your own content to this box
    • Add your own Box: you can also create a box to the right side of the content which acts as a second container for content that should always be visible
    • A different layout optimized for the iPhone
    • Many included snippets and style options

    Note that there are also additional modules available for this theme which are sold separately: e.g. WordPress modules, HTML5 Audio Player Module.

    Here’s the Preview Page: http://www.rapid-ideas.com/previews/modulo2/ And here's the whole Rapid Ideas site using the new theme: http://www.rapid-ideas.com/modulo2/