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Reply to Just wondering..for those who have their own cool webpages. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

well I still use html and css, though with a small amount of javascript, (though you can happily navigate my site with JS off, it just looks a little prettier with it on). I still rely on a text editor and the w3c html validating service (though some of my pages don;t validate at the moment!) in the main, though I have been known to use 1st page 2000 from http://www.eversoft.com/ which is a good html editor which you can make do as much of the work as you want, has a preview facility li

Reply to I want to try Linux...which distro do you suggest from a skinner's perspective and why? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

mandrake is a great distro fro anyone who is new to *nix. To be honest, as a skinner, and wrt GUI, your choice of window manager is more important than your distro.

Reply to Skin Maker, create skins for Coolplayer is comming soon in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Coordpad does exactly what you want: http://www.teknidermy.com/issue4/artcpv4.html

Reply to Earth to BoXXi...come in BoXXi... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

i thought feline was a girl....

Reply to Hey! You Brits! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

hey Ashby-de-la-Zouche had cult status with me and my swife and some other of our universitiy frineds for a long time. We visisted there one day. It has a castle and some nice pubs. And a crisp factory (thats potaot chips for you americans). Said factpory was the initial reason for its cult status. WQe used to have competitions in pubs trying to name the place of manufacture tof the snacks behind the bar.... hours of fun .....

Reply to How to do transparency on a web page in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Here we are: 3D Flash Animator. I've not used it, but looks ok. I imagine it's not as fully featured as the real thing, but it's US$49.95 and there's a free demo download: http://www.3dfa.com/

Reply to How to do transparency on a web page in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

hmmm I've seen a shareware flash thing on the cover of some UK computing mags... /me toddles off to google

Reply to what program works with in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

deadman, most of the programs here work with win 9x (I've used a lot on 95 as recently as a week ago). The best thing to do is click on a skin section, and then on the 'website' link for that product. that will soon tell you whethjer the program runs on 98. However here's a list of some that I'm 99% sure DON'T run on win98: CursorXP Dashboard Pocketblinds

Reply to Do you have your own home page? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

darn I used to know mig's site addy....

Reply to Do you have your own home page? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

http://www.moppy.co.uk/ just need to tweak the style-sheet a bit, it's nearly CSS2.0 and html 4.01 compliant, but just need an hour or so to clean it up...

Reply to Question about Gimp technique in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

OK I whipped up a quick and dirty conversion of the whole tutorial for ya: http://www.moppy.co.uk/tutorial.htm check it out and let me know what i missed out!

Reply to Question about Gimp technique in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

argh ignore the last line there - some left over text

Reply to Question about Gimp technique in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

OK two quick additions to the hints for this tutorial: When it comes to the gradient in step 2 - set the gradient tool options to: Blend - FG to transparent Gradient - Bi linear Repeat - Triangular Wave Then draw a small horixzontal line about a quarter of the width acrooss your flag and the gradient will appear as he's got there... When he talks about the liquify filter and the Warp tool, I'd use the ripple filter and the iwarp filter... You'll probab

Reply to Again... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

boXXi - bean, bean, half a bean, bean and a bean and a half.

Reply to Question about Gimp technique in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Another tip: A lot of photshopss functions appear to popup when tools are selected, for the Gimp, double click on the tool in the toolbox to see a full list of options which will generally correspond to the photoshop ones. Ah and when I said 'Image->etc' above, I mean 'right-click on the active image...' Hope all this helps.

Reply to Question about Gimp technique in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Here's a photoshop tutorial for making a flag: http://robouk.mchost.com/tuts/tutorial.php?tutorial=flag You'd be surp[rised how easily photshop tutorials adat to Gimp tutorials.... Main hints for conversion: -- when they talk about Ctrl-clicking a layer, it's the equivalent of the Gimp's Image->Layers->Alpha to selection -- When they talk about Ctrl-D, it's the equivalent of Gimp's Image->Select->nothing. Don;t forget you can assign any keyboard shortcut to any Gim

Reply to Question about Gimp technique in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

hmmm a try playing with the distortion map filter. I'm not too sure but that might do it... And yes Gimp-savvy is a very good place to start. Also try http://manual.gimp.org/

Reply to WindowBinds 3.31i: New controls skinned in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

aha I see... thanks for the info vim. Gordon bennett what else is ther left unskinned?

Reply to paying for a skinning site??? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

HuronJoe, there are many ways to participate in this site/community. There's no need to apologis for what you perceive to be a lack of participation. There's no need to comment on a thread that doesn't interest you, and not everyone enjoys skinning... in fact, imho the most valuable contributors are the people who download, as most skinners are happy to know they're skins aree nbeing used. To be super-appreciated though, all you need do is one extra thing, and thats comment on the skins you enjo

Reply to WindowBinds 3.31i: New controls skinned in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

/me grumbles about how there were already way too many things to skin in WB 2.

Reply to WindowBinds 3.31i: New controls skinned in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

errrr what's a spin control?

Reply to Goodbye. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

cheers Tim. I remember you often helping me with my first attempts at skinning NS

Reply to Apples New Ad Campaign? Bad Move? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Actually, technically that's not true. My life won't be complete till I die.

Reply to Apples New Ad Campaign? Bad Move? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

And when Steinberg finally release a version of Cubase with OS X compatability my life will be complete.

Reply to Apples New Ad Campaign? Bad Move? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Welll after years if usiung both PC and Macs at work, but only ever having a PC at home (more through having bits and pieces of PC hardware which were cheaper to upgrade), Poppy's Dad is donating a Mac to us! Unfortunately it's in rather yucky circumstances as he runs a branch of a Japanese printing cpomany which he is having to clos4 down, but it means he can do whatever he wants with the macs. So he's donatin gus one, not sure what yet as he's waiting to see whats left but it will be