A new dark Theme for WinCustomize
First alternative theme for WinCustomize - a skin for our skinning site.
Thursday, February 11, 2010 by zigboom | Discussion: New Releases
Hi
Have you ever wished there would be some alternative themes for our beloved site?
Most likely you did, after all we all love skinning and using alternative themes for our applications.
Not sure if you know already, but there is a way to skin websites, it's called "Stylish" for Firefox.
Stylish is an Add-on for Firefox that let's the user apply various styles to existing websites.
There are many styles (themes) for popular sites such as Google, Facebook etc.
It's one of the coolest Add-ons I know that let you style your web, quite futuristic.
The paradox is, there is no theme for Wincustomize, our beloved site that is one of the biggest skinning communities.
Well, there wasn't until today.
I took the mission to make the first alternative dark theme for WinCustomize and Wincustomize Beta.
It's optimized mostly for the beta site but works on both so when the beta will become the main site it'll work the same.
To use it you'll need to install Stylish add on for Firefox from here - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108
Then to apply the style, just one click on "Install with Stylish" here - http://userstyles.org/styles/25121
Hope you'll enjoy it,
comments are welcome.
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Reply #64 Saturday, May 15, 2010 9:55 PM
zigboom, Looks good thanks now I don't have to use the blinding white....
did see one bug when giving Karma the send and forget it words you can't see.. no biggie just thought i would let you know if you don't already ...
Reply #65 Saturday, May 15, 2010 9:59 PM
oops bug two or may be on my side the tool bar did not skin it's still white...
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Reply #67 Tuesday, May 18, 2010 7:15 AM
Thanks for the feedback DrJBHL!
Thanks for the feedback DisturbedComputer.
About the toolbar, that's part of Firefox, you can change it easily to look like on my screen-shot & skin all your Firefox in a dark theme. Install BlackFox theme here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/57531/
Check out my other Firefox themes here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/4710003
I'm taking care of the bug you mentioned with the Karma.
Reply #68 Tuesday, May 18, 2010 7:36 AM
Karma bug is fixed!
Update the theme through Stylish or on this link: http://userstyles.org/styles/25121?r=1274182413
Reply #69 Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:11 PM
I use Firefox for my banking.
I like IE8 because I can use the WinCustomize Toolbar with it. And I love the favorites bar, and I have no speed problem with it at all.
Reply #70 Wednesday, May 19, 2010 8:30 PM
Thanks for explaining RedneckDude, I wasn't aware of the Wincustomize Toolbar, how didn't I hear of that? I'll check it out...
By the way Firefox also has a favorites bar (as seen in the screen-shots above) & is definitely faster rendering web-pages, I guess with a very fast connection it doesn't matter so much.
I just love the great add-ons & Themes for Firefox such as AdBlock Plus, DownThemAll, NoScript & Stylish of course. Open source rocks...
Sorry I couldn't make this theme also for IE, I'd love to offer it for all browsers but it's not possible without add-ons...
Reply #71 Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:25 AM
sorry i missed this before.but this is so cool thanks for sharing 
Reply #72 Friday, November 12, 2010 3:45 PM
OMG, I'm sooooo late to reply, I didn't get a notification, anyway, thanks for the feedback!
Reply #73 Friday, November 12, 2010 5:19 PM
You can also use this for Chrome as well. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/pabfempgigicdjjlccdgnbmeggkbjdhd
Reply #75 Friday, November 12, 2010 6:11 PM
UPDATE:
The style has been updated, using some advanced features in Firefox to draw gradients, for example the radial gradient in the header that is visible in the screenshot.
Reply #76 Friday, November 12, 2010 6:52 PM
I had tried this when it first came to light. It stayed workable for all of two hours then it stopped skinning both the home page, forums, everything. I had to uninstall it to get FF back to normal. That was about a month ago. Haven't gone back to it since.
Reply #77 Friday, November 12, 2010 7:27 PM
Please try again, it has just been updated & is working very nicely. Anyway it cannot do any harm so give it a chance.Sure that it cannot effect your Firefox to go out of normal state, it's only a script that is active inside Wincustomize and deals only with style definitions.
I'm using it from the beginning and never encounter any bug, it always skinned as it should.
Anyway, please try again and let me know how it goes, if there are bugs I'll do my best to fix them if you'll give some info.
Reply #78 Friday, November 12, 2010 7:27 PM
Okay ... so I went back to it. Found out why it didn't work. One of the themes I was running, also a dark theme, doesn't play nice with userstyles. Uninstalled that and applied the WC Dark Theme with a different theme for FF itself. So far so good.
Reply #79 Saturday, November 13, 2010 8:00 AM
Thanks for the feedback Uvah! Please check out my Firefox themes, BlackFox & LavaFox that just got updated, working well also with FF4beta.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/4710003
Reply #80 Sunday, November 14, 2010 3:25 PM
UPDATE: The style has been updated, more use of gradients in the code (as can be seen in the screenshot on top), additional improvements in the forum design, more gradients and cleanup.
Feedback is appreciated.
Enjoy the alternative style of WC!
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Reply #61 Saturday, May 15, 2010 3:10 PM