The problem of skin sites
Wednesday, July 4, 2001 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I've been visiting Skinbase quite a bit lately slowly uploading some of my stuff there.
And it hit me, the problem new sites have, especially right now, is that because it's so time consuming to upload skins and because no one can be sure how long many of these sites wil be around that many skin authors (myself included) fear that the hours we're spending uploading is going to go to waste if the site goes down.
I think one of the reasons why WinCustomize has done well in the skins area since it launched is because skin authors know it's not going to go away thus it's worth taking the time.
So how do we make it easier to upload skins to multiple sites? I was thinking it could be solved through software:
A program in which you type in your logon info to various sites and it would log you on and you could mass submit skins to all the sites at once. So when you're uploading that Litetep theme or WindowBlinds skin it would be uploaded to all the sites you chose to at once. We could even make it so that you could queue up a bunch of skins to be submitted. Since it would be a program and not web based, the slowness of going through the varius submission pages wouldn't be an issue.
This is just an idea right now, what do you guys think?
And it hit me, the problem new sites have, especially right now, is that because it's so time consuming to upload skins and because no one can be sure how long many of these sites wil be around that many skin authors (myself included) fear that the hours we're spending uploading is going to go to waste if the site goes down.
I think one of the reasons why WinCustomize has done well in the skins area since it launched is because skin authors know it's not going to go away thus it's worth taking the time.
So how do we make it easier to upload skins to multiple sites? I was thinking it could be solved through software:
A program in which you type in your logon info to various sites and it would log you on and you could mass submit skins to all the sites at once. So when you're uploading that Litetep theme or WindowBlinds skin it would be uploaded to all the sites you chose to at once. We could even make it so that you could queue up a bunch of skins to be submitted. Since it would be a program and not web based, the slowness of going through the varius submission pages wouldn't be an issue.
This is just an idea right now, what do you guys think?
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Jafo
Reply #22 Friday, July 6, 2001 8:00 PM
Reply #22 Friday, July 6, 2001 8:00 PM
Main thing is it must support the ability to add or alter URL's as and when sites go up/down....
paxx
Reply #24 Saturday, July 7, 2001 5:24 PM
Reply #24 Saturday, July 7, 2001 5:24 PM
OK, now that we got it all figured out, who's the volunteer to program it? 
piedude
Reply #26 Saturday, July 7, 2001 8:45 PM
Reply #26 Saturday, July 7, 2001 8:45 PM
I've got a really important suggestion for this program:
IT HAS TO BE SKINNABLE!!!!!!!
IT HAS TO BE SKINNABLE!!!!!!!
DaWebMassa
Reply #27 Saturday, July 7, 2001 9:35 PM
Reply #27 Saturday, July 7, 2001 9:35 PM
Yea piedude is right. What's a skin program that isn't skinnable? And it has to support multiple users... and direct IP addressing... and DNS resolution... and multiple definitions for the same skin... and... ummm, sorry, got carried away there. 
Frogboy
Reply #29 Sunday, July 8, 2001 9:30 PM
Reply #29 Sunday, July 8, 2001 9:30 PM
Well I think that is a given, Jafo. Can't even get XP certification without that.
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Reply #21 Friday, July 6, 2001 6:28 PM