Sections in Jeopardy!
Tuesday, February 3, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
WinCustomize never removes sections. But we do try to keep only a limited number of very active sections available on the home page.
With going on 2.5 million unique visitors per month, we take great care over choosing just the right sections.
The following sections are in jeopardy of losing their home page status (i.e. users would have to click on the [more...] link).
- Widgets for SkinStudio
- NextSTART
- Litestep
The widgets section really is pretty hard core stuff so doesn't really belong on by default.
NextSTART is something we have pushed quite a bit but there have been no new themes uploaded in 2004. If you're a NextSTART skinner, now would be the time to a) submit your themes and 
help WinStep promote its use to others.
Litestep is an old favorite by many skinners and themers out there. But there's been only two new themes created in 2004 for it. If you're a Litestep advocate, now would be the time to spread the word to help get things going.
We have a couple of sections we'd like to put on deck:
- Rainlendar
- Samurize
- Trillian
Like I said, we don't remove sections but if any of these 3 programs are pulling ahead of the ones already listed on the home page, it's time for them to show that they're still heavily used or step aside and let others come up.
Your thoughts?
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Reply #22 Wednesday, February 4, 2004 5:36 AM
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Reply #25 Wednesday, February 4, 2004 6:54 AM
Rainlender and Trillian both sound great to me.
Reply #26 Wednesday, February 4, 2004 7:12 AM
Reply #27 Wednesday, February 4, 2004 7:23 AM
"counterpart' is not entirely accurate when comparing LiteSTEP with WB/Objectbar.....in fact they all three work together.
Yes, it's been quite slow of late in the LS section but that's just as likely to change sooner or later. As with WB, themeing for LS gets more intricate as each evolves...and guaranteed, neither is as brain-dead simple to accomplish as Beatnik or Bootskins [if you take more than 10 minutes with those you probably just made two of them].
Naturally I'd rather see a 'quality' and sophisticated section being championed on the 'front page' as a high standard example of GUI customizing, on a par with any other Shell replacement around, and have the haven for 'fan art' and copyright 5-second rips [Bootskins] be nudged to the 'also rans'....at least until the advent of high colour capabilities.
237 Litestep themes vs 352 Bootskins....the latter adds up to maybe a 1000 individual images and ini files....just ONE alone of the former has 432 images and config files, etc, which exemplifies their relative significance and complexity, hence the 'frequency' of new works upped to the LS section.
LiteSTEP is not and never was a second-rate customizing program and should not be relegated but lauded for its significance to this skinning community...
Reply #28 Wednesday, February 4, 2004 7:28 AM
Reply #30 Wednesday, February 4, 2004 8:58 AM
I know that right off the bat there will be a few skin uploads for it.Reply #31 Wednesday, February 4, 2004 9:07 AM
Please point out where there are and so you can prove me wrong. but what i've seen as "skins" for msn messenger are just a different background for the contact list. what i'm talking about is a complete Gui change.including different buttons and skinned emoticons or replacement of them or an add-on to add more animated ones
Reply #34 Wednesday, February 4, 2004 9:20 AM
only two themes created? you mean two themes uploaded to Wincustomize.
if you look at Litestep.net you´ll see that there have been 32 new themes in 2004.
DesktopX here: 23 in 2004 (i did not count the multiple resolutions for Konstrictor)
ObjectBar here: 2 in 2004
it´s like it always was over the years. when the Litestep community has a working LS.net activity on other sites drops. usually not as significant as now though.
Jafo:"Naturally I'd rather see a 'quality' and sophisticated section being championed on the 'front page' as a high standard example of GUI customizing, on a par with any other Shell replacement around, and have the haven for 'fan art' and copyright 5-second rips [Bootskins] be nudged to the 'also rans'....at least until the advent of high colour capabilities."
fully agree with that one. unfortunately most Rainlendar skins don´t push skinning further as as well and are just one BMP image (usually cut-n-paste from a WindowBlinds skin or a msstyle) with fonts slapped on them. on the other hand i guess that´s what most people want anyways.
Reply #35 Wednesday, February 4, 2004 10:32 AM
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Reply #38 Wednesday, February 4, 2004 11:11 AM
Without an online themes presence Litestep would risk sliding into oblivion. So by keeping a Litestep section in it's current status, Wincustomize is helping tremedously.
While activity in a given section is the main criteria for a section's status, perhaps it should not be the only criteria.
Reply #39 Wednesday, February 4, 2004 12:06 PM
Reply #40 Wednesday, February 4, 2004 12:42 PM
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Reply #21 Wednesday, February 4, 2004 5:01 AM