More WC Updates
It's all about the colors!
Wednesday, November 24, 2004 by T-Man | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Well, the most obvious update is that we changed the color scheme and style of the main WC2K5 site. We did this to help answer the many complaints we had received over the pastel looking colors. Hopefully this change will be more appealing to the masses. However, we are not done with the overall look of the site. There are still some areas that we wish to colorize further. As an example, on the main site it is our plans to have each tab(section) have it's own color combination. But we are going to try and stay away from the pastel colors and try to use more dark and warm colors.
Finally we are starting to get some of the preferences from the old site into place. The Max # of skins per page and Ratings filters are now in place. Just to go your My Account page and on the Preferences page you can adjust these settings. Over the course of the next month or so we will try and get some more settings in place but these were on the top of the list.
We are also trying to get navigation nailed down a little bit better in the forums. There is a new navigation bar that appears when you are in a specific channel or reading a forum post. This navigator bar allows you to jump right back to that channel or parent channel. Also, if you are in OS Customization and click on the link to create a new post it will automatically select that channel for you saving you a click and page refresh.
And earlier in the week you probably saw that we changed the look of the main gallery page to a thumbnail view. Now we are still working on the thumbnails. To get this page to look its best we want the thumbnails to be a consistance size. However, not all of the screenshots are the same so this is a little bit tougher. Right now we are forcing them all to be the same so many of the thumbnails are stretched. We hope to in the near future change this to set max dimensions on them but we need to do some backend work first before we can make this happen.
Also I want to thank CerebroJD again for taking some time and creating new smilies for WinCustomize. I really like the look of them and hope you do to! 
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Reply #22 Thursday, November 25, 2004 4:27 PM
Congratulations for the great work with the news colours and settings 
Reply #23 Thursday, November 25, 2004 10:30 PM
I was trying to change the month of my birth. BTW the second month of the year is spelled February...2 r's. You might want to get Jafo on that
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Reply #25 Friday, November 26, 2004 2:01 AM
~ The new smileys are pretty cool, too. Thanks Cerebro!
~ The forums are looking and acting much better. Definitely more organized and easier to navigate.
~ The thumbnails are looking pretty good in the gallery section. I'm still trying to figure out if that's a redundant page or not though. If I want to go directly to a certain gallery, why not just use the links in the left column?
~ I'm still unsure about the Featured Suite also. Since it's showing a "Premium Suite," why wouldn't be a part of The Store? IMO, it should be a user-submitted suite. Or maybe have it as a Featured Artist section and showcase a different artist each week with a link to their personal site.
~ The preferences still aren't working.
~ I think that's about it for the moment. All in all, I think the site is coming along great! I can't wait for the final product!!
~ Thank you to everyone involved in the creation of the new site. It shows the dedication people have to the skinning community and to the site. You're all doing great work!!
Reply #27 Friday, November 26, 2004 11:13 AM
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Reply #30 Friday, November 26, 2004 1:13 PM
Personally what I'd like to see long-term is the ability for users to customize parts on their own. Ie...and interface to create a per-user style sheet.
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Reply #33 Saturday, November 27, 2004 3:22 PM
So... what color combinations would you like to see? We're taking suggestions.
Reply #35 Sunday, November 28, 2004 10:43 AM
Thanks.
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Reply #37 Sunday, November 28, 2004 11:31 PM
In all actuality...we want the same thing. 
Reply #38 Monday, November 29, 2004 7:33 AM
Thank you for posting.
Quick question for ya. If you where given a choice as to what color you would like the background to be, what color would it be? If possible, please be specific such as mentioning any RGB values, or a Hex values. In addition, you may like to make a mock up so we can get an idea of what people, such as your self in the community are looking for. Reply #39 Monday, November 29, 2004 5:05 PM
First of all let me say the new WC sight is absolutely great. Somthing like the grey on the left of the screen. (or any derivative) Just not whitish. I am also well aware the preferences of one person will not/and should not influence the final composition of the site. And I thank you very much for your interest.
Reply #40 Monday, November 29, 2004 5:45 PM
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Reply #21 Thursday, November 25, 2004 5:00 AM