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 #42 Tuesday, November 30, 2004 12:15 PM
Reply #44 Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:43 PM
I hope I wont get sick of green smileys though. 
I like them, everything's awesome!!! 
Reply #45 Tuesday, November 30, 2004 5:14 PM
Reply #46 Wednesday, December 1, 2004 2:57 PM
In other words the "Browse Site" container should look more like the "Log Out" button. Would make the site a little more consistant.
Still lookin good though. The "Custa-Lizard" looks way better than he did in the past. He used to look corny, but now he's pretty cool. Time to make a new t-shirt that isnt lame
Reply #47 Tuesday, December 7, 2004 11:17 AM
If i go into "my skins" and look at the drop down for the items (Wallpaper/windows media/etc) I see a # in (X) next to each category, but they dont match up with the actual # of items in that list.
IE: It shows Wallpaper (7), but when I look in that listing it shows 3 Wallpapers. I think it is counting ones that didnt make the cut and make it to the site.
Just passing on info.
Romanda
Reply #48 Friday, January 21, 2005 10:05 AM
I was directed to you by another user. I'm having trouble submitting wallpaper to the system. I've sumitted the same wallpaper twice. Each time in My Skins is shows that it is awaiting approval, however, I come in the next day to see that it has vanished from the My Skins area.
Do you have any idea why this isn't working for me? Thanks,
Robert Joy
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Reply #41 Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:42 AM
I like the great updates, but why don't you keep the "Total downloads" in "My skin" section? I think it's really interesting to see the number increasing.