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A Guide to WinCustomize User Levels & Promotion in Community WinCustomize Forums

WinCustomize makes use of a tiered user level system, with each level of user having slightly more site access than the one below it. The idea is that as people become more involved in the community, contribute more to the site in terms of skins, or help via the forums, they are rewarded with a higher level. Now, while we have this information hidden away in various spots on the site, we've been getting a lot of questions in the last few months on what the levels are, what they me

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Reply to WinCustomize Help Center [Beta] Launches! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]If this help center is anything like your MyColors support, then you will never get an response back. And if you do... the person has no idea on anything. [/quote] The page is not a support system. It is an index of helpful resources sorted by category and by application.

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WinCustomize Help Center [Beta] Launches! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Last week I posted a little preview of the upcoming changes to the WC Help page . The idea was to make the page easier to navigate, easier to read, more inviting/friendly and give us the ability to expand on the help resources we could provide on the page. The old help page was just a bunch of link lists that weren't very organized and hadn't been updated in

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Reply to To All of Our Community Members in China in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I'm going to leave Micky-G's post as it is, without a single edit. Why? Because it shows us something about who Micky is that otherwise we wouldn't have seen. To use a tragedy like this to push your own personal politics just isn't right. The people affected by this disaster, the children, the regular citizens in central China, have nothing to do with the geopolitical situation. It would be the same as someone celebrating your house burning down as some sort of div

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X-Play Loves Twilight of the Arnor in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

G4TV's X-Play recently reviewed Twilight of the Arnor, giving it an incredible 5 out of 5! Like just about everyone else who's reviewed the game, they loved the tech trees, the increased galaxy size, improved visuals & performance and even the new content creation tools. Since it's X-Play, there's also a video review... <PARAM NAME="allowScriptAccess" VALU

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Sins Review Round-Up in Sins News Sins Forums

It's been over three months since Sins of a Solar Empire hit store shelves, and soon it will be readily available at retail in Europe as well. In the months since release, the reviews have continued to trickle in one at a time here and there. Today, I have a quick round-up of a few of the most recent reviews posted for Sins. Overall, with this latest bunch Sins of a Solar Empire has a solid 88% on GameRankings .<

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IGN Gives Twilight of the Arnor a 9.1! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Yesterday, Steve Butts of PC.IGN posted his review of Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor. The result? A respectable 9.1/10 review. The two-page review covers everything from the unique racial tech trees and planetary improvements, to the new Ascension victory condition and the return of the Terror Star. Steve closes out his review of the final Galactic Civilizations II review wit

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To All of Our Community Members in China in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

WinCustomize is home to skinners from around the globe, and as we've realized in recent years, a large part of our community comes from China. As reports continue to come in about the damages caused by the earthquake in central China we wanted to take a moment today to reach out to all of our affected community members; forum goers and skinners alike. We'd like you to, when you can, drop us a note on thi

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Gef Comes Out With Two New Free DX Themes in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Master Skinner and former site moderator gef is back with some brand new free DesktopX themes for your skinning enjoyment. Classic is designed for 1680x1050 resolution only, while Evolve will work for either 1680x1050 or 1280x1024. <SPAN class=DynamicDropShadow_1 id=_sha

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Reply to May 13th Skin Thoughts and Reviews in Community Stardock Forums

Another great article! Tip: When inserting images into articles, limit their width to 400px so they fit in the article column. You can always link the preview to a larger version of the image.

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Reply to Turning off your computer in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I turn my PC off when... I am out of town for a few days. No point in leaving the PC on if I'm not around at all. When moving Gotta disconnect it to haul. Doing serious desk cleaning Every year or so I disassemble my work area to clean everything out When there's a thunderstorm Even with a surge protector, better safe than sorry. When applying an update Gotta reboot. Aside from that, the machine is

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Reply to SkinCast - Episode 4 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]There was a mention of GUI Championship this year. I know we already had one in the beginning of the year but is this going to be a Wincustomize sponsored one? [/quote] There was no GUI Champs at the start of the year, there was just the community contest BX ran. There will be a 2008 GUI Champs later this year :)

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Community Fun: Space Pony Hats! in Gaming JoeUser Forums

If you're a fan of Sins of a Solar Empire, you may have seen the game achievement "Space Ponies" in the achievements list. The origin of the pony is a long tale to tell. Suffice it to say, it's a joke from early in the Sins of a Solar Empire beta test that grew and took on a life of it's own, and became a bit of a forum favorite joke. Turns out that one of the guys in the Sins community makes custom embroidered hats. PoorManDSO (<a href="http://www.darkstaroutpost.co

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SkinCast - Episode 4 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

We've made it a full month now with the SkinCast! For Episode 4, WinCustomize Administrator Jafo joins the fun to talk to us a bit about the history of skinning and WinCustomize. Unfortunately, mymicrophone blew up about 2min before we started to record so this week is just Island Dog and Jafo. Next week, we're hoping to pull in RomanDA to talk about DesktopX and all various things gadget related.</P

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Reply to My Thoughts on How NOT to be a JU Leper in Blog Communities Stardock Forums

I think the single best bit of advice to newcomers on how NOT to be an outcast here is to simply not come with a chip on your shoulder. Know that you're not just posting on blogger or livejournal, but to a community. Coming in to any community and proclaiming yourself supreme and basically thumbing your nose at EVERYONE is the best way to get shoved aside. Come to the site with an open mind, and just have some fun. That alone will likely ensure your acceptance in the

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Create Custom Fonts with FontStructor in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Ever thought about creating a custom font but weren't quite sure how to go about it? Not quite sure how to put the font file together? Well, the folks at FontShop have put together one of the coolest customization web apps I've seen; FontStructor . Using an incredibly simple interface, you can draw your font out letter by letter, pixel by pixel. It even has a large selection of customiz

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Zoomba's Weekend Picks in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I hope everyone had a great weekend and did something nice for their mom on Mother's Day. Now that it's Monday once again, it's time to look through the gallery and pick out what I think is some of the best work submitted to the site over the weekend. Here goes...

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