The little online magazine I’ve kept for a few years has been based on the Voyager theme included in RapidWeaver. I’ve loved its look, versatility, customizability. It fitted very well for a magazine.
Now, I would like to make the magazine evolve with a redesign. After having seen that Foundry’s support will end soon, I’ve abandoned the idea to migrate on that. I’ll likely do my next step with Voyager Pro, making sure that my trusty theme can give me all that it can.
Do you find this theme to still be a modern, advanced one? Has something else appeared during the years to match its features and quality?
Voyager Pro is an Elixir Graphics theme and Elixir has now departed the Rapidweaver world so you won’t get it any more. Neither would you want to as it wouldn’t be supported.
Yours is a difficult question to answer as everything depends on what you want your site to look like.
Personally, I prefer to use a blank theme and build a site how I like but for just one site I appreciate a theme is often a better solution. In your shoes, I’d look at the Blank theme from Themeflood (make a donation) and build out with whatever stacks you feel like.
Actually, it is still available for sale. To be true, I just purchased it to avoid seeing it evaporate!
RW Themes are very handy, since they offer professional design and programming that I wouldn’t be able to do, or do at the same level. I can customize them with some bits of code, but the core is the solid one offered by the theme developer.
With Stacks, it is fairly easy to replicate whatever website you see starting with a blank theme.
However, the promise of the upcoming Rapidweaver Elements is to replace much of what you would purchase Stacks to do with the native functionality of either pre-built Components by Realmac, third-party developers, or your own custom Component–created with a variety of methods that are quickly evolving.
That’s interesting - where did you buy it? Elixir site is now closed as far as I can see. maybe you purchased just before it went? Adam made very good themes so they should last even without support - just if something does go wrong you have no help.