OK, so I eded up finishing the Windowblinds skin on the plain to California. Bringing us to a total of 34 hours on the Windowblinds skin. More then I wanted but not to bad over all. But now from the Starbucks in San Bernardino California. I have the chance to update the blog, and explain why I have been MIA for the last 2 days.

I spent yesterday doing the Icons and the wall, though I want to tweak the wall a bit more so Im not showing it here. Icons ended up takeing about 5 1/2 hours, and I only did the "Core 24" as I call them. they are the Icons you see in the XP start panel, as well as the folders. Anyway. I chose to do these sice this skin, and the Icons, are going to be packaged up in a Theme Manager, and I wanted to keep the file size relatively small. I plan on finishing up the rest of the Iconpack on my own time, and will try and get it up on wincutomize.com sometime in the first week of December.

I ran into a few glitches, which is why the skin took longer then I thought. I got it into my head to animate the XPStartpanel User pane. And ran into a problem with the size. But With help form Adam and Neil we got it working. Also. I decided that I did not like my original Tiltlebars. And had to redo them. And I also redid all the Menus, tab pages, and toolbar backgrounds, to get a good Tiling Pattern for the Snowflakes.

Soon as I am done with the suite, 100% I will post some of the Source file for people to play with.

Here is a Gif of what the animated User Pane looks like.

Click on the thumbnails below to see the full size images.

Tabs, and the Log On / Off Dialogue

The Skin and Icons.

More to come....