Stuff going on...
but not as much as usual.
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Well, it's about time I added something in my sporadic page of articles. My last (rather tragic) entry was apologising to Steve Grenier for a less than positive comment on his Tiger skin - which was a bad thing to do! Sigh.
So what's been happening (man). Since the last skin pack I've been slightly less busy on the WB front, but that was intentional. I think you need to take a break regularly to let the creative juices circulate a while, and mine have been stagnating for a while!
But, during that time I've had chance to play around with Windows Media Player for two skins (One for an English cricket team's website - so that they can watch clips of their fellows playing, using a skin with their own team colours), and one for an online radio station (which was technically quite challenging - I learnt quite a few new useful things about WMP because of that, which is a nice side product).
As far as WB goes, I've been doing a skin for Stardock which isn't quite ready to be released yet, but is quite nice, and a DirectSkin for a Scottish company's financial application, which most people might not get the chance to see (note to self: get some snapshots done for the website...).
And... finally, I have one other WB skin ticking over. There will be a new skin pack which I'll hopefully have ready sometime in the autumn - I'll probably release the free one at the same time as the pack. Of course, I haven't started that yet...
And while all that's going on, I have a 75th anniversary concert with Marton Operatic Society to conduct (tomorrow! aaagh!) , and a show in rehearsals twice a week ('The Sorcerer' by Gilbert and Sullivan), opening for a week at the end of September.
Busy busy busy...
(oh - and thank you to MikeB and Koop for being genuinely nice guys.)
So what's been happening (man). Since the last skin pack I've been slightly less busy on the WB front, but that was intentional. I think you need to take a break regularly to let the creative juices circulate a while, and mine have been stagnating for a while!
But, during that time I've had chance to play around with Windows Media Player for two skins (One for an English cricket team's website - so that they can watch clips of their fellows playing, using a skin with their own team colours), and one for an online radio station (which was technically quite challenging - I learnt quite a few new useful things about WMP because of that, which is a nice side product).
As far as WB goes, I've been doing a skin for Stardock which isn't quite ready to be released yet, but is quite nice, and a DirectSkin for a Scottish company's financial application, which most people might not get the chance to see (note to self: get some snapshots done for the website...).
And... finally, I have one other WB skin ticking over. There will be a new skin pack which I'll hopefully have ready sometime in the autumn - I'll probably release the free one at the same time as the pack. Of course, I haven't started that yet...
And while all that's going on, I have a 75th anniversary concert with Marton Operatic Society to conduct (tomorrow! aaagh!) , and a show in rehearsals twice a week ('The Sorcerer' by Gilbert and Sullivan), opening for a week at the end of September.
Busy busy busy...
(oh - and thank you to MikeB and Koop for being genuinely nice guys.)