I get asked this a lot. If you could have any one feature in RapidWeaver, what would it be? I used to have one long standing answer; dependencies in theme development. That was really what I felt RapidWeaver needed for the longest time because there are just some things that could not be overcome with adding more and more css sheets. Things like having sexy graphic layouts, with variable sidebar options, with background color options, with page color options... there is just no way without being able to make RapidWeaver understand if and then at the theme level. Read More...

Tags: MAMP, XAMPP, PHP, Perl, MySQL, Apache, dependencies

The quick answer is yes/no... that doesn’t help does it. Yes there is no reason why RapidWeaver can’t be used by professional web designers for some things, but one tool won’t always fit the bill for every situation. It really depends on what your needs are. To be honest, RapidWeaver, now at version 4, is a powerful enough tool to be used extensively by any professional and there are many situations where I might find myself using it. Read More...

Tags: RapidWeaver, professional

Recently (and I mean more recently than the date of this fake plog post would lead you to believe), Ben Counsell of Realmac Software wrote a post on using multiple css classes on a single HTML element. He hits on a few good points, but as for myself, dealing with the sea of id’s and classes that we have to work with in RapidWeaver theme development Read More...

Tags: CSS, how-to, multiple, classes

Those of you lucky enough to have been in the RapidWeaver community since 2005 might remember this story, but those of you who don’t remember the days of seyDoggys forming and how the name came to be.

In 2005, my then youngest daughter was just two years old and not always clear with her words. Every time we would go into her room she could hear the neighbors dark barking and proclaim, “It’s a doggy!” Which, as it turns out, would actually sound like, “Sey doggy!”

And a company name was born.

Tags: It's a doggy, Sey, doggy, seyDoggy

Why is that? Why is the web design industry dominated by men? There are certainly a lot more women getting involved then there were years ago but as far as equality is concerned, I feel the web industry is far behind the curve.

Even today, we’ve found ways to objectify women and their role in the web with such characters as iJustine and Mostly Lisa (Go Canada), who in there own right have much more to do with the web then just being pretty faces but yet you see their faces guesting hosting on every show, not to talk about what they can really do but just to talk about how many followers they have on this social network or hot site... and why do they have so many followers? Because they are pretty faces in a sea of dorks and yet they are willing to accept our friend requests.

There are smart women out there doing smart things. Why aren’t they celebrated more?

Tags: women, web, design

It doesn’t just taste like facon, it IS facon. And to be totally sure, we are going to prove it with a quote:

All the facon in the world won’t save this blog post. He’s done like dinner, fried like an egg, tastin’ like facon. Mmm, mmm, good! Can’t get enough of that facon.

Can you believe it, the rambling words are as clear as mud. This really is facon.

Tags: blockquote, trial, facon