With a heavy heart

I will be away for a few days coming up and wanted to give everyone a heads up in case I am not as quick as usual in responding to e-mails and such.

Liz and I will be traveling to Pennsylvania Wednesday to attend her grandmother's funeral. She passed away this past Saturday, August 23. I wish that I'd had the opportunity to meet and get to know her as I've heard wonderful stories about her. Liz and I had talked about visiting her on a few different occasions, but we never got the opportunity to do so, which makes me sad. It also saddens me immensely to see Liz and her family so filled with sadness over their loss.

With my father having only passed away last December (also on the 23rd) I'd hoped that there would not be such pain and sorrow in either of our families for some time to come.

We will return from our trip on Friday, so by the weekend or early next week I should be able to catch up on e-mail correspondence. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Stuff in the works

It has been a little while since my last post and just wanted to give everyone an update on what is going on behind the scenes.

Aside from our custom projects for clients I have two new themes in the works. The next theme that we release will contain a good deal of features and customization options. It will also have some styling of the EXIF data for the photo pages. In the past this has been overlooked and not styled much.

With the recent release of MultiTheme's latest project, PageMix, they truly showed that this is an areas we as developers should pay attention to. I was inspired after seeing MultiTheme's latest theme to develop some icons for the EXIF data in our future RapidWeaver themes. When we release our next theme we will also be releasing this series of 30 icons through our sister site Icon Lab. These icons will be free and can also be used by other developers to help in dressing up their own themes as well.

Speaking of our sister site, Icon Lab -- We recently released a set of free, 3D icons that you may be interested in for use on your RapidWeaver designed sites. We also have a huge collection of other free and pay stock icons available through Icon Lab that will help in dressing up your site. So stop by and have a look.