WinCustomize Subscribers Get Some Extra Goodies
Monday, March 26, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
When we say you'll be getting new features when you subscribe to WinCustomize, we mean it, especially with the upgrade to WC2k7. With the move to a more modular design and heavy use of CSS, we can implement changes much quicker than before. Today I have two changes to share with you that have gone live in the past week or so. Some I think a few have you already noticed and chatted about briefly.
- Would you like your Nav Bar on the left, or on the right?
WC2k7 moved the navigation bar to the right of the page. Some of you love the change, some of you hate it. There are arguments for and against having it on either side of the page, and they're all valid. It comes down to personal taste ultimately. Well, we've listened and our whiz-bang CSS and design guru, Dark-Star, whipped up a simple sub-theme for the site that flips the navigation bar from the right to the left.
My navigation bar aligned to the left of the page.
- Was 48 skins per page too few? How about 100?
If you're a non-subscriber, you have a pretty limited number of skins you can view per page when browsing the skins libraries. One of the biggest advantages to having a subscription (aside from killing those pesky ads) is the ability to select a much larger number to display per page. This makes browsing a lot easier! The upper limit used to be 48 per page, which would give you 12 rows of gallery items before you had to go to the next page. Well, considering galleries like WindowBlinds have well over 4,000 items to go through, you'd still be clicking through 86 or so pages to reach the end.
Now, thanks to Code Monkey Dean, the upper limit has been cranked to 100 skins per page! It will take just 41 clicks of the "next page" button now to reach the very end of the gallery. Going along with this rather large increase in images to display, T-Man figured out how to drastically speed up how we serve images on the site. So those 100 skins will load up in a blink of an eye!
To get access to these new options, just click on the "Settings" link at the top of the page and go to the "My Account" tab. Make your selections and click "Update" and you're done.
We hope you enjoy these two new features, and we'll be working hard to keep the flow of extra goodies going throughout the year!
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RomanDA
Reply #3 Monday, March 26, 2007 1:56 PM
Reply #3 Monday, March 26, 2007 1:56 PM
cant wait to see "skins" for the site..
nice additions!!
you all do a great job, its a shame most people dont see all that goes into making a great site, that works easy, and fast.
nice additions!!
you all do a great job, its a shame most people dont see all that goes into making a great site, that works easy, and fast.
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #4 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:01 PM
Reply #4 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:01 PM
yay,,,nav on the left where it belongs and less page turning. 
ArileenDesign
Reply #5 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:14 PM
Me too i look at all days since fews days to see if there here or not
@developers as always GOOD JOB
Reply #5 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:14 PM
cant wait to see "skins" for the site..
Me too i look at all days since fews days to see if there here or not
@developers as always GOOD JOB
ZubaZ
Reply #6 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:21 PM
Reply #6 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:21 PM
Zubaz waits for puppies and free ice cream before going all crazy.
Philly0381
Reply #7 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:27 PM
Reply #7 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:27 PM
Wipeeee! This being Monday these recent changes to Wincustomize must mean this is going to be a very good week!
Puppies and and free ice cream, I'd be happy to contribute, just tell me how.
Thanks Stardock, nice upgrade.
Puppies and and free ice cream, I'd be happy to contribute, just tell me how.
Thanks Stardock, nice upgrade.
Tsumana
Reply #8 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:47 PM
Reply #8 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:47 PM
Whoa, it's weird seeing the bar on the left again.
Good to have it back though and the option to switch only appeases my indecisive nature, kudos!
Good to have it back though and the option to switch only appeases my indecisive nature, kudos!
Hankers
Reply #9 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:50 PM
Reply #9 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:50 PM
Zubaz waits for puppies and free ice cream before going all crazy.
You may get a boat ride (one way) instead 
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #10 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:51 PM
Reply #10 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:51 PM
Nav bar going back to the right..."my" site,skins,watchlist and settings didnt make the left switch...
oh well,more skins per page is still cool.
oh well,more skins per page is still cool.
Incoherent
Reply #11 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:55 PM
Reply #11 Monday, March 26, 2007 2:55 PM
Well darn it, finally have time to come back and that's because I got demoted to part-time at my job, so now I don't have the money.
Great additives as always and Ill eventually be able to become one of the "L33T" one day.
Great additives as always and Ill eventually be able to become one of the "L33T" one day.
MySecret
Reply #13 Monday, March 26, 2007 3:04 PM
Looked really strange But I do like the additional skins per page..Appreciate the effort to always make our experience better
It's My Secret
Reply #13 Monday, March 26, 2007 3:04 PM
Nav bar going back to the right..."my" site,skins,watchlist and settings didnt make the left switch...
Looked really strange
But I do like the additional skins per page..Appreciate the effort to always make our experience better It's My Secret
Bebi Bulma
Reply #16 Monday, March 26, 2007 5:29 PM
Reply #16 Monday, March 26, 2007 5:29 PM
I was playing with the nav bar left/right thing the other week. Tried putting it on the left again, but I've already gotten used to it on the right so on the right it stays. Although, it doesn't affect the forum nav bar.
Although, it doesn't affect the forum nav bar.
sleepydawg
Reply #18 Monday, March 26, 2007 6:03 PM
Puppies on your ice cream? Shame shame.
Reply #18 Monday, March 26, 2007 6:03 PM
Puppies and and free ice cream
Puppies on your ice cream? Shame shame.
MarkSnyder61
Reply #20 Monday, March 26, 2007 7:14 PM
Reply #20 Monday, March 26, 2007 7:14 PM
I was still always looking to the left for the nav bar and now it's all mine again! LOL
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Reply #1 Monday, March 26, 2007 1:51 PM
great for those of us with Carpal Tunel.. 73%?
Seriously, nice improvements, Im gonna have to subscribe one day soon.