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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Koogle
Reply #41 Friday, August 24, 2007 6:20 PM
I wouldn't worry about it much VishalGuptaMVP.. I only brought it up because I don't think much of the way this competition has been setup so far and the rules on such things like "Artwork used in skin must be your own." are just very vague. Your skin was just way for me to point it out.. as to me some of the graphics are familar looking, seems like the mods are going to be lax on it and let it slide..at least I now know where things stand on this issue.

VishalGuptaMVP
Reply #42 Saturday, August 25, 2007 5:37 AM
^^ Why are you so sarcastic? Do you have any problem with the site management?
Do you think that moderators are not doing their job perfectly?
Or you didnt like my skin? If not, then no problem.

I'm also moderator/admin in a few other forums, "Island Dog" knows it very well. I know how difficult the task of moderators is? They got lots of things to do.

I don't know why you are so much worried about my skin? If you didnt like it, then leave it. I can't satisfy all with my skin.

Anyway I don't want to discuss such issue any more. I'll leave it to mods. I request them to fully investigate about it and if they find it a rip, then please remove it. I'll have no problem.

paddymx
Reply #43 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:50 AM
Hi,

I uploaded a Maxthon skin yesterday and have found a couple of errors! How can I get that one removed(has yet to be approved) and re-upload a corrected version. Skin name BLU_Circles_32.

Thanks

Patrick (paddymx

vStyler
Reply #44 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:04 AM
I think I'll enter this   

Zoomba
Reply #45 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:10 AM

paddymx:

I'll reject the current one so you can upload something new


paddymx
Reply #46 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:20 AM
Zoomba,

Thanks, I will re-upload soon. Almost completed corrections.  

Patrick

paddymx
Reply #47 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:16 AM
Zoomba,

Just uploaded my skin. Progress said complete, BUT, got error that I must include a SKIN file!  Uploaded m2s file????

Did you get it???  

Thanks

Patrick

shaana
Reply #48 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:28 PM
I upload my third (and maybe final) skin.
UFF    

Zoomba
Reply #49 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:42 PM

Paddymx,

I'm not seeing any files from you.  Try putting your skin file in a zip archive and uploading that.

-Mike


paddymx
Reply #50 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:01 PM
Mike,

Thanks! I think I was having a problem with 7zip and preview formats. I will try again in a few minutes. I will re-reply when I send!  

paddymx
Reply #51 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:21 PM
Mike,
I just tried again with a 7zip and a m2s using IE and Maxthon! All attempts failed?

I am using the m2s in Maxthon with no problems?? It is still comming back with must include skin file error. Question. When it is asking for the skin name, does it require the full name (Blu_Circles_32.m2s/zip?? I have just been inputting Blu_Circles_32 and using the "Browse" feature to populate both preview(jpg) and ZIP!

Could my account be the problem??

Sorry for all the problems

Patrick

Zoomba
Reply #52 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:31 PM

You need to provide:

Skin Name - Whatever title you came up with... such as "My Ultimate Skin of Awesomeness" (No ZubaZ, that can NOT be one of your submissions for the next GUI Champs)

Preview Image - A JPG image showing off your skin in action.

Skin File - The .m2s or .zip file.

Description: Your own words describing the skin.

---

Make sure you're not mixing up the Preview Image and Skin File fields.


paddymx
Reply #53 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:59 PM
Just tried it again with the same results. I tried skinname with and without .ext and ""!

Can't figure this one out  

Progress window shows uploads but the "preview JPG" has leading numbers attached.

Just tried it again with a m2s BUT this time I renamed my/your "Preview" preview.jpg(b4 IT WAS "UPLOAD.JPG". Looks like that might be a requirement. LOOKS LIKE IT TOOK THIS TIME.  

Could you please confirm?

Patrick


vStyler
Reply #54 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 5:04 PM
No ZubaZ, that can NOT be one of your submissions for the next GUI Champs


  

ZubaZ
Reply #55 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 5:40 PM

No ZubaZ, that can NOT be one of your submissions for the next GUI Champs


I hate you all . .
Flaming Aero of Death was brilliant!  And with a title like that it should have done better.

My 2008 GUI submissions will ROCK THIS PLACE!!!

(Now to find one of those awesome Chinese skinners to sub-contract work out)   


vStyler
Reply #56 Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:09 AM
Now to find one of those awesome Chinese skinners to sub-contract work out


Or an awesome american one   


GuyWinC
Reply #57 Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:15 PM
About VistaVG Skin for Maxthon 2.x
I'm really very disappointed
You shouldn't. But anyway why didn't you post a preview "with buttons and toolbars"? I've downloaded already many skins that I don't seem to like. If I click on thumbnails and links there still isn't any preview to find for VistaVG Skin for Maxthon 2.x



shaana
Reply #58 Monday, September 17, 2007 4:29 AM
I have updated hover effects in my AAA skin and I am waiting for approving

Island Dog
Reply #59 Monday, September 17, 2007 7:31 PM

tomclarence
Reply #60 Tuesday, October 30, 2007 8:28 AM
I have just upload my competition skin.
The name of the skin is Dii.
Do I upload files rightly?

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