Start Menu Open Help Thread

I am going to use the BBK Start Menu to begin with I will show where to set margins to properly STRETCH we will deal with tiling later!

Now here it is in its 5 parts

Now with the margins in place for 2 sections

Remember anything inside the box created by the margins will be stretched!

Now for some skin stdio settings

Shot of my actual margins

I will try and get some more up tomorrow

perhaps this should be moved to tutorials category

BTW...Thanks again!

One thing I would add:

When designing a Vista start panel, make the left side wider than the right because the all programs list pops up in the start menu itself instead of a fly out like xp. Long names get chopped off if your left side is to narrow.

For Vista:   Using a start menu that is 380 px wide, I make the left side panels 230 px (both the Programs and All Programs panels), and I make the right side panel 150 px wide (the Places panel).

For XP:  Using a start menu that is 380 px wide, I make both the left and right side panels 190 px wide.

For me, these sizes work well...no text gets clipped off, or gets split into 2 lines of text.

Hope this helps....

Thank you for helping!

Posting for future referance.

(nice thread by the way)

awsome thread harley....... alot of newbies would learn alot from this for sure..

Dude, you dont know how helpful this is! Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together for so many of us that need it.

Thanks Kitty

I am very glad it helped I will try and add more as I can.I see we are starting to get some help too!!!!

I updated all the image links for this tutorial .:) Hope it helps someone!!!

You are a great bunch of people: Examples to all, and Master Skinners heart and soul.

You people are what it's all about. There must be decades of experience here in this one thread.

There should be a Master's Forum Sticky Thread in General Discussions>Skinning.

Hey, Thanks for the tut. 

Hope to see more of these coming our way .

Regards, roflmfaoo

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