During the great rewrite, I’ve been trying to focus on one section at a time. The first section to come under attack was “everything pertaining to the styling of Slider that is not Arrow-related”. After much mucking-about I decided to combine the Border, Rounded Corner, Background Image, Gradient and Background Colour onto one Pane.

I don’t know why I didn’t do this before, it is obvious and really the only logical way to present these controls – enabling some may disable others, it was confusing and clumsy when they were on different tabs.

Now users will be able to see what is being enabled/disabled without swapping between different tabs.

Here is a screenshot of the option page as it is currently:

Slider style configuration laid bare: Click to view

This is about the 10th layout redesign, I’m quite sure there will be no major changes from now on.

Still a long way to go, but progress *is* being made.

Tags: Development, Objective C, Rapidweaver, Slider

Somehow I screwed everything up again, and had to go through a few hours of frustration and confusion.

It paid off, the Javascript works well now, and I’ve finished one set. It even works perfectly in IE6 AND with Accordion! Tomorrow I’ve just got to create a few more styles, then I’ll be able to release it.

I’m not sure how I’ll sell them, as a pack or as individual styles? I might do both – sell each style individually and offer a discount for those who purchase multiple styles at a time. I think it makes more sense that way, as some people won’t want to use all of the styles on their website, while some developers will want various styles so they can demo them to prospective clients. Also, if I do it that way I’ll be able to add more styles to the store as I make them, without having to wait for X amount to release them as a pack.

I’ll think about it some more though, after I’ve made the styles.

I’m sure you’ll all like it, no matter how it is packaged.

Tags: Development, Products - 产品, Rapidweaver