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Reply to My Website Updated in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

...and those are my baby smileys!

Reply to My Website Updated in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

And thank you for that comment about the WBs Mike. Coming from you - one of the skinners who's skins I use as reference models for my own - it is praise indeed.

Reply to My Website Updated in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for the comments people. Links awayyyy! Don't forget, I can add more link buttons on the site if you have one.

Reply to My Website Updated in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Cerebro if you want to add the HTML, you can use this on your web page: ...which will add the button directly from my server. (When someone clicks on the button image

Reply to Logoff Buttons Transparency in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You should use Targa format files if you can. If you can't use targa, you could try just using a section of the xp start menu bottom bar image behind the icons, and don't use the magic pink at all (I used to do that all the time.) What I do nowadays is: 1) for the 'logoff buttons' section in SkinStudio, create a tga image which has the 'symbol' part of the button - i.e. the circle with the dash inside etc. (Note that if you use a 'log

Reply to My Website Updated in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Oh - and if you have a link button on your website for essorant.com, you can use my updated one which looks like this:

My Website Updated in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Well, finally updated the look of my website, which actually is rather less 'skins'-like than the previous version. The site now looks lighter and doesn't use frames any more (though I'm not sure why people criticise frames so much...). The content is the mostly the same, and - as usual - the galleries are a bit behind my posts here on WinCusto. I'll be updating them with my recent stuff next. I hope there aren't any technical goofs there, b

Reply to CursorXP 1.31 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Thank goodness for Cursor XP. And Stardock of course. And Skinplant for the Solara cursors.

Reply to Icon-A-Day, Icon #10, Hard Drive. in Icons WinCustomize Forums

Oh no - where are the pictures? I see broken image icons...

Reply to Smilies not working w/ Firefox in WinCustomize Site Issues WinCustomize Forums

Same here. Using the text commands instead.

Reply to [VS] Retro in New Releases WinCustomize Forums

Hey - how did this get here? Ah... "new releases". Thanks for picking it out Brad. I can understand that it might seem strange that it appears in the forums (fora?) as well as in the general "new skins" areas of the site. I think that the concern Cygnus was trying to make was just that you might end up with some self-promotion stuff going on in there along the lines of "hey look at the great new skin wot I designed - why not download

Reply to Wallpaper Basics (Newbies 6) in Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

Well done Cordelia for a continuingly entertaining series of noob tuts (or "new chaps and ladies instructional documents for the computer thingy", for those of us unused to this newfangled lingo). (hmm... is 'continuingly' a real word?..)

Reply to Hue Changing in WindowBlinds 4.5 in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

This always was an excellent tool in WB config, which I've used regularly. Whoever dreamt the idea up should get a bonus. (Well, a box of doughnuts at least.)

Reply to The perils of Googling oneself. in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Googling my nick finds... me! And other heraldry stuff, because that's just about the only place you use 'essorant', other than when you say "oh, not another skin by...".

Reply to Icon-A-Day, Icon #3, The Text File in Icons WinCustomize Forums

This is a great series of tutorials and a good encouragement for non-icon people (like me) to get on and do some icons. I'm looking forward to the more difficult ones (like my computer and the drive icons).

Reply to The Top Skins of 2004 in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Thank you for including Jester. I'm honored to be in such talented company.

Reply to SkinPlant 2005 in New Releases WinCustomize Forums

Ooh. Aaah. (is that ok?) Sexilicious skin and site there fellas. I like the way your balls rotate. It will probably be February before my site is updated, but I'm already working on it!

Reply to Some of my favorite skins of 2004 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Thank you. Glad you liked Jester!

Reply to TGA, PNG and WindowBlinds translucency. in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Thank you very much danilloc for that fix for the targa plugin. it works!

Reply to TGA images in Photoshop CS - not transparent in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Oh well done danillo! That works! Thank goodness for that. And thank you PixelPirate for that. It should be brought to everyone's attention!

Reply to TGA images in Photoshop CS - not transparent in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Ok - thanks for that info everyone. I'm glad I didn't uninstall PS7. Looks like I'll be going back to that for my TGAs. And quite right Scarebear - I STILL don't use SS. Sorreee! I know, I am just a naughty boy. Obviously I might start using it if that's the only way to make transparent TGAs - unless the WB developers might like to add PNG support to WindowBlinds? In fact, while we're on the subject, has anyone a good reason to swap to CS from

Reply to TGA images in Photoshop CS - not transparent in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Hmm - I'm confused. Saving my psd file from PS7 in 32bit TGA format results in an image of buttons with transparency. Doing exactly the same thing, using the same psd file from CS results in buttons with a white background. I'm not doing anything to the alpha channel at all.

TGA images in Photoshop CS - not transparent in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

When I'm saving a PSD image as a TGA (targa) format file from Photoshop CS I'm losing transparency. I'm obviously doing something dumb... any ideas what it might be? (done this a thousand times in PS7 - is there a setting in CS I didn't set?)

Reply to Is SiteMeter Wrong? in Websites WinCustomize Forums

peek or peak? peek = look at something quickly in a furtive, trilby and overcoat, victorias secrets kind of manner peak = top of a mountain, or the highest something has reached, or the level of my physical fitness about ten years ago. (what? what? just trying to be pedantic...)

Reply to Roll on 2005! in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Aw... thanks brncofan7. Kind words. (And actually, the none of my other skin backs have sold over 100 yet - people just don't like to pay, even if it's only $5, and the commission paid to handle the payments