Announcing the WinCustomize/Maxthon 2.0 Skinning Competition!
Personalize your browsing experience, win cool stuff
Monday, August 20, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
WinCustomize, in partnership with Maxthon International Limited is pleased to announce the Maxthon 2 Skin Competition! Starting this week, skinners from all over the globe will be able to design, build and submit their own custom Maxthon 2.0 browser skins to WinCustomize.com to compete for prizes and bragging rights in the skinning community.
Maxthon is one of the most customizable web browsers out there and has taken the Chinese market by storm with over 10 million users world-wide, and just this month released the final 2.0 version of the software to users. With the release of 2.0 and it's vast number of improvements, now is the perfect time to check out the software and get to skinning it!
Most browsers either aren't skinnable, or have limited customization capabilities, making Maxthon an ideal browser alternative to those wanting to customize every aspect of their Windows experience!
Entries will be judged by WinCustomize and Maxthon staff and select community members. We're really looking forward to see what great designs the skinning community will come out with!
For those interested, the contest details are as follows:
Eligibility:
- Must be 18 years of age or older
- No geographic restrictions
- Must have a WinCustomize account
Submission Rules:
- Skins must work with Maxthon 2.0
- Skin must be new and original work. You may NOT submit skins that have been previously posted to any website or for any contest.
- Artwork used in skin must be your own.
Prizes:
- Most Creative: Canon SD800 Digital Camera
- Most Usable: Apple iPod Nano 4GB
- Most Popular: Wacom Graphire 4x5 Tablet
Judging
- All entries for Most Creative and Most Usable will be judged by a panel made up of WinCustomize and Maxthon staff.
- Most Popular will be judged by a combination of panel voting and user voting.
Deadline:
- Skins must be uploaded to WinCustomize no later than 11:59pm EST on October 31st, 2007 (UPDATED)
Important Links
Any questions? Either leave them in the comments here, or send an email to mikec AT stardock DOT com with the subject "Maxthon Skin Contest"
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Reply #22 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 7:20 AM
When I click on "Submit to Gallery" link and the next page is shown. I selected "Maxthon" in the drop-down list. But in next page where we have to upload the file, screenshot, etc. There is no option in "Category" drop-down box.
I filled all required details and when I clicked on "Submit" button. It showed error:
Your skin has failed to upload.
Error code: UploadDetails
So please fix it or tell me if I'm doing something wrong.
Reply #24 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:48 PM
Reply #25 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 2:33 PM
All is well, you should be able to submit without problem now.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Reply #26 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 4:50 PM
Reply #27 Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:51 AM
Reply #29 Friday, August 24, 2007 7:17 AM
All uploads are moderated, so there will be a delay as the file is downloaded and tested by a site moderator. This usually doesn’t take more than 1-2 business days (uploads on weekends will take longer to process). When they’re processed, you will receive an email saying so, and you’ll find it in the gallery you linked in your email.
Reply #31 Friday, August 24, 2007 1:43 PM
Reply #32 Friday, August 24, 2007 1:54 PM
I have replaced files and I am waiting for admin access now
But I need change text guide to install too
Reply #35 Friday, August 24, 2007 2:42 PM
Tell me about it.
I would love to enter this contest, but trying to skin this browser is very difficult. There is no app (that I know of) which can be used to skin Maxthon, and the wiki skinning reference isn't much help either. After hours of rigor, I still can't figure out how to do seemingly simple things, and you have to edit everything in the code too!
If anyone could point me to some good sources, that would be much appriciated!
Well they have been told plenty of times to get a better skin reference guide out
Reply #36 Friday, August 24, 2007 3:08 PM
similar style graphics don't necessarily mean they're stolen. I've seen a lot of Vista skins that are VERY close in look to Vista but whose graphics are built from scratch.
The basic premise is "innocent until proven guilty"
Reply #37 Friday, August 24, 2007 3:46 PM
similar style graphics don't necessarily mean they're stolen. I've seen a lot of Vista skins that are VERY close in look to Vista but whose graphics are built from scratch.
The basic premise is "innocent until proven guilty"
A lot of icons in Vista skin is (IMHO) not own;
see eg. this Chinese Vista Maxthon skin
Reply #38 Friday, August 24, 2007 4:49 PM
In fact I just follow the Wikipedia tutorial and made the skin. If you guys still think that I steal anything, then I'll delete my submission. I don't want to be known as ripper.
My skin is far different than any other skin and I have tried it to make like Vista IE. Thats it. I have created lots of other themes/skin in past which you can take a look at my DA gallery.
I'm really very disappointed.
Reply #39 Friday, August 24, 2007 5:15 PM
but...
12 files in subfolder shared
4 files in subfolder toolbar
are the same (size in bytes, file creating date)
Reply #40 Friday, August 24, 2007 5:23 PM
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Reply #21 Tuesday, August 21, 2007 7:14 PM
My bet would be that Opera was earlier...