My 1st WindowBlinds Skin Day 3

Happy birthday Vito! Good luck finishing the skin, looking forward to seeing the final product.

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday ! Making a skin is a huge work, but the first upload is a great moment...

Checked out your links, You are doing an amazing job !~!

Happy Birthday and hope it is a fantastic day !~!

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Happy Birthday! Hope you enjoy your day.

Glad that you are using the Segoe UI Font. It will look great. Like the snaps!

I think that you should take a break today - after all it is your birthday!
You shouldn't rush, although it does look really good.

Thanks for your wishes. I am taking a break today a bit. My friends are taking me out for lunch later on but I still am working on the skin as much as I can.

At 11:48 am I just finished the animations. I created them in Flash and exported to AVI to use in SkinStudio. The below previews are GIFs so they are not as good quality as AVIs but good enough to give you an idea what I've done.

I will now start with graphics for special folders.

bit of choccy cake...then back to work.....    

Nice Job!

Just want to know something - Do you know of any good programmes that create Visual Styles for XP? I haven't made a skin before and I've said to myself that I should start from the basics (VS)
I posted a forum earlier but a lot of people are from the US and are sleeping, so their was no reply.

SkinStudio doesn't seem to have a VS utility and I'm only using the free version at the moment anyway.

I have to go now, will check this post tomorrow, or which ever one has my answer - from anybody:-)

Good Luck with the rest of your Skin!

[Chow4Now]

Sorry I don't know any. I don't even know what Visual Styles for XP are...

Thanks for the cake sidneysiders just what I needed to finish off the special folders by 14:15. I am going for for my birthday lunch now and will continue with the left, right and bottom taskbar sections in the evening.

Everything looking good!!!Happy Birthday and Happy Easter!!!Keep up the good work stop by our Easter skin and check out the comments ,I think everybody liked it .It moved up to3.5 stars.By the way COOL Sp folders!

Good to hear that Easter skin is doing well.

It's 18:43 and I just came back from lunch with my friends. We went to Japanese restaurant and after that they stuffed me with loads of Italian ice cream so I'm really full now and I have to digest it a bit before I will be able to continue with my skin so I will watch a movie and after that it's back to skinning for me.   

22:19 and I will finish for today. More or less the skin is finished just need to create a seperate substyle for the taskbar on the bottom. Please if everyone can download it and test it to see if I have left out some important part or to help me find any bugs.

There are two things that I just couldn't figure out how to remove the white border around task pane and white gaps between progress bar chunks. Any help would be much appreciated. Please se pics below for reference.

Download BETA version of my 1st WindowBlinds skin. I have included the fonts in the ZIP as well.DOWNLOAD HERE





Good night everyone!

Hey Life is a Game, I will take a look tomorrow at progress bar at see if I can see anything, it is just an Explorer and IE problem, it works fine in FireFox.

Thanks AVMAN for this bug report. I think I fixed the problem by changing the margin for stretching the image.

Hi Life is a Game, A visual style is the standard theme that XP uses. Its' file extension is .msstyles. But don't worry I'll make another post about it later.

Your style is looking good!

I would download the Beta version of your skin bu I'm having a few problems with my software, and I also need to get updated versions of Stardock software, need to buy them - which is a problem because I'm in SA and I have no credit card or anything, so I'll have to make a plan.
But the previews look good, and again, I'm glad you used Segoe UI - It just gives the theme that much of a touch.

Amazing work you are doing life !~!...amazed at how fast it is coming along..

Mike I purchase Stardock products by purchasing a money order in US funds. I refuse to use credit of any kind online, and have had no problems using my method in 3 years.

It's My Secret