Skin Primer 2002 (rough draft)
Thursday, October 11, 2001 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
https://www.stardock.com/stardock/articles/skinprimer/skinprimer2002.html
A couple of years ago I wrote a skin primer to help pitch Wired magazine to do an article on the skin community. It was kind of shabby and quickly done up. It's pretty out of date now.
This evening (after Survivor and the President's press conference) I went and rewrote it from scratch. Obviously I'm not the ideal person to write a skin primer since I work for Stardock. But hopefully the information contained will be viewed as objective and useful to novices.
We're going to have a lot of new users coming as XP rolls out and it would be good to have something they can refer to.
This is just the rough draft that I whipped up in the last hour and a half or so. I haven't put in screenshots yet since that'll take more time. Will work on that tomorrow evening (since I'm doing this in my spare time).
Anyway, let me know what you think. Any suggested changes and such.
A couple of years ago I wrote a skin primer to help pitch Wired magazine to do an article on the skin community. It was kind of shabby and quickly done up. It's pretty out of date now.
This evening (after Survivor and the President's press conference) I went and rewrote it from scratch. Obviously I'm not the ideal person to write a skin primer since I work for Stardock. But hopefully the information contained will be viewed as objective and useful to novices.
We're going to have a lot of new users coming as XP rolls out and it would be good to have something they can refer to.
This is just the rough draft that I whipped up in the last hour and a half or so. I haven't put in screenshots yet since that'll take more time. Will work on that tomorrow evening (since I'm doing this in my spare time).
Anyway, let me know what you think. Any suggested changes and such.
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craeonics
Reply #22 Sunday, October 14, 2001 7:29 PM
Reply #22 Sunday, October 14, 2001 7:29 PM
Well, Froggy, you could always write that in-depth article and post it at Tek under another name!
jark
Reply #23 Sunday, October 14, 2001 7:45 PM
Reply #23 Sunday, October 14, 2001 7:45 PM
i would be interested in an in-depth article like that brad, it sounds very intriguing. i appreciate the stats and you taking your time to look at DA like that.
...mind sending some traffic our way now?
...mind sending some traffic our way now?
Frogboy
Reply #24 Sunday, October 14, 2001 8:32 PM
Reply #24 Sunday, October 14, 2001 8:32 PM
Jark, as soon as you make your announcement on increased bandwidth, we'll do a dual announcement here and at Stardock. The more traffic you get..the better! 
Scarebear, I'm going to update the Skinbase stuff to be even better. I want to talk about some of the unique features of Skinbase more.
Scarebear, I'm going to update the Skinbase stuff to be even better. I want to talk about some of the unique features of Skinbase more.
Scarebear
Reply #25 Sunday, October 14, 2001 10:31 PM
Reply #25 Sunday, October 14, 2001 10:31 PM
Brad, let me know if you need anything. And I'll run and get it from gRAVE 
Jafo
Reply #26 Sunday, October 14, 2001 11:43 PM
Reply #26 Sunday, October 14, 2001 11:43 PM
Haven't read the article yet...but a quickie....before there was Quake...there was Wolfenstone 3D....and it was hacked to provide alternate graphics...sort of 'skinning'...
Don't forget Calmira.....a Shell/skin for Windows 3x...
Don't forget Calmira.....a Shell/skin for Windows 3x...
craeonics
Reply #27 Monday, October 15, 2001 7:38 AM
Reply #27 Monday, October 15, 2001 7:38 AM
Wolfenstone or Wolfenstein? I think I've played that game a long long time ago.
Jafo
Reply #28 Monday, October 15, 2001 8:33 AM
Reply #28 Monday, October 15, 2001 8:33 AM
Yes, Crae...I went on holidays and my spelling prowess didn't come back from them....
Actually, I was trying to remember the name...yer right, BTW....
Actually, I was trying to remember the name...yer right, BTW....
Frogboy
Reply #29 Monday, October 15, 2001 11:14 PM
Reply #29 Monday, October 15, 2001 11:14 PM
FYI final version now posted.
Made changes based on feedback.
Made changes based on feedback.
Edwin Overmeer
Reply #30 Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:06 AM
Reply #30 Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:06 AM
I am dumbfounded, the QNXred skin is amazing !!
Now running Windows 2000 but I like the startbar so much that I order XP today, really !
See
https://www.stardock.com/stardock/articles/skinprimer/wb3.jpg
Now running Windows 2000 but I like the startbar so much that I order XP today, really !
See
https://www.stardock.com/stardock/articles/skinprimer/wb3.jpg
kenray
Reply #31 Thursday, October 18, 2001 3:56 PM
Reply #31 Thursday, October 18, 2001 3:56 PM
Tek has shied away form doing "reviews" of any kind, for the most part.
With so many sites in such a small niche, any "review" we might do of a site could only be one reviewers "opinon" which, for hte life of me, i have to believe, would not be positive, nor responsible.
Tek has, in it's first year, had interviews with almost eveyrone runnign a "big league" skin site...and anyone we have missed, we are working on.
(btw, taka is developing a yearly recap of tek, to be published in Japan, in the Japanese language...first interview = Frogboy)
man, it is so nice ot sit back and watch crae eat up soemone else for a change......hehehehhe
With so many sites in such a small niche, any "review" we might do of a site could only be one reviewers "opinon" which, for hte life of me, i have to believe, would not be positive, nor responsible.
Tek has, in it's first year, had interviews with almost eveyrone runnign a "big league" skin site...and anyone we have missed, we are working on.
(btw, taka is developing a yearly recap of tek, to be published in Japan, in the Japanese language...first interview = Frogboy)
man, it is so nice ot sit back and watch crae eat up soemone else for a change......hehehehhe
jark
Reply #32 Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:14 PM
Reply #32 Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:14 PM
published where in japan? for those that do not already know, i live in japan, so i would be interested in knowing more about this.
craeonics
Reply #33 Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:50 PM
Reply #33 Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:50 PM
Taka runs Interface Workshop, right? So I guess he'll post it there.
JayG
Reply #34 Saturday, October 20, 2001 5:04 PM
Reply #34 Saturday, October 20, 2001 5:04 PM
i like tek. good site. skinning has a small town feel. i read fb's thing last night and checked out the sites. lotsofskins is down. customize gave me a wierd symbol and wulnd't let me on. skinbase worked fine. and da had some guy trashing fb for not including his stuff in the fb's article.
maybe tek could do n article on the difficulties of online diplomacy. the more active in the community you guys get the more you get trashed by the wannabes.
maybe tek could do n article on the difficulties of online diplomacy. the more active in the community you guys get the more you get trashed by the wannabes.
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Reply #21 Sunday, October 14, 2001 7:09 PM
I agree it would be nice to mention the great sites that have fallen. I feel skinz.org especially did a lot towards getting people interested in skinning. It deserves a mention.