Skinning fun things vs. skinning popular things
What's your balance?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 by Frogboy | Discussion: Skinning
When it comes to skinning, there is sometimes a very big difference between what one finds funnest to skin versus what is the most popular thing to skin.
For example, I love to make DesktopX objects. That's because DesktopX supports programmable (JavaScript or VB Script) type animation and responses. Since I'm a developer, I can do pretty neat stuff very quickly.
But making WindowBlinds skins tends to result in far more users noticing what I'm doing.
So I'm wondering, for other skinners here, do you have the same situation crop up? Things you like to skin more versus wanting to make skins for the larger community?
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Reply #21 Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:03 PM
I think that is the best philosophy to have. I generally skin the applications I use. I have skinned other applications that I simply enjoy skinning because they are fun. They are rarely downloaded, but I like skinning them. That's pretty much all I care about.
Thanks Scarebear, Yeah, you have been at it for quite awhile, I remember seeing your skins before I actually joined WC..
Good to see your still around..