Try www.firevision.co.uk . I have all my domains sorted out through them. They charge good low prices, and offer all the extra features you could possibly need. They also have damn good customer support.
As I said, agree to disagree.
I'm not going to continue my side of the debate any further, but I'm still yet to be convinced. It seems that my opinion that skins come under the exact same law and traditional art is incorrect if what Jafo says is true. I would consider an unobscured screenshot of a modified version of one of my skins to be just as much in breach of copyright as an unobscured screenshot of a modified version of a wallpaper being displayed on a desktop. Both can be reverse engineered into a useable file from th
Okay, well I guess we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this. I find it somewhat of a contradiction that Jafo states that it's not against copyright law to upload a screenshot of another artist's work to a public server, and yet in the same breath states that it's within the original artist's rights to stop it from happening. If those rights aren't a part of copyright law, then what are they? Anyway, as I stated time and time again, it's the uploading of a screenshot
Okay, that link broke. Some help here?! By the way, yes skinning should be fun. It's the struggle to maintain the integrity of your own work afterward that makes it such a drag sometimes. On more than one occasion rippers have almost driven me to give up skinning altogether. It's only my enjoyment in creating skins that keeps me going. I truly believe that there's no need to use parts
The distinction I was making was between posting a screenshot of your desktop using an unmodified skin, and posting a screenshot of a skin which contains modified parts of another's work. I'm not going to swing back and forth with bakerstreet on who is and isn't right about copyright law, but I'm perfectly happy to take appropriate action against anyone who distributes screenshots of 'modified' versions of any of my skins. I have succeeded in that very situation in the past, and pretty
By the way, I hate always sounding like the bitter hardass when it comes to Copyright, but I guess someone has to keep people informed. As someone who has had to deal with copyright infringment in the past, I tend to feel a responsibility to others to keep them from making mistakes. So I hope people can at least appreciate that what I say is out of friendly concern rather than an attempt to throw my weight around. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/joke.gif" border=0 ALI
You could also say, 'Which part of copyright law deals specifically with paintings of yellow flowers?'. I'm not saying copyright law covers each and every specific instance by name, but rather the broad medium of digital graphics as a subset of art. If anyone really wants to get into the semantics of copyright law again, I'd be happy to post some links. I can't guarantee you'll understand the terminology, but it's all out there for you to read. I can understand how people feel
I posted another long reply to your comments bakerstreet, but typically it got lost in transmission. So here it is in shorthand. 1) Screenshots of original skins ARE in breach of copyright, but are still generally acceptable so long as credit given. 2) Screenshots of modified skins ARE in breach of copyright, and should only be posted if given permission by the original artist. 3) Derivative works include any image which contains the exact graphical informatio
The main thing to remember here is that a great deal of this issue is governed by law, not just good manners. Any derivative works should never be distributed without the original author/artist's permission, and that even includes screenshots as far as I'm concerned. The problem with screenshots is that they can in turn be 'ripped' by someone else, who will then post a screenshot, and so on. This introduces the risk that any credit given to the original author could be lost along the way. <b
Yeah baby, yeah!!
I guess technically you could class Fireworks as a vector application, and that's what I do all of my skins in. It keeps everything nice and clean, and allows for an easier workflow than pushing pixels around in Photoshop.
Mine is a name passed down through the ages, from grayhaze to grayhaze. There has always been a grayhaze for as long as man can remember, fighting injustice and upholding the skinning way. I became the current grayhaze around 1995 after witnessing the fall of the previous grayhaze at the hands of our sworn enemy - Nameless One. Since that time I have been working to secretly restore the ancient art of skinning from the inside, manipulating the minds of others by convincing them that the
Get an ATI Radeon 9700 when they come out. They blow away all competition in terms of features and performance. They also have the benefit of using those very same Radeon drivers that work so well with WindowFX 2.
I'll let you have first choice of weapon Jafo. Just so long as it isn't the lawnmower again... that just plain hurt.
Popup advertising is evil. If I ever put popup adverts on any site I create, you all have permission to inflict great pain on me. Whoever invented popups had to be a salesman, not a web designer.
Isn't Hippy male? I'm sure he is... Anyway, I just wanted to say Stardock sucks and so does this site. See, now that just felt so wrong as I typed... I just can't be mean to WinCust!
Well that's 4 votes for each. Now I'm back to square one! I guess I'll keep working on both until I get bored with one of them. I'll still finish both eventually, but I know how much people have wanted a good update for dinks. I've been promising I'd do one to all the people that keep mailing me too! As is probably the case with all skinners, I also have two others in the works, but I'm not
I seem to be doing so many things at once that nothing's really getting finished. Maybe it says something about my thought processes that I tend to have around 5 personal projects on the go at once. Anyway, I'd like to get some opinion from those people waiting for either my '8-Ball' skin or the update of 'dinks' for XP. Which would you most like to see first? They're both in similar states of comp
Also, how many web sites are maintained on a machine in local proximity to the server they're stored on? Most web design and development these days is carried out through a remote connection to the web server, thereby rendering this whole concept redundant. They're always good ideas until you actually speak to someone who works in the field you're aiming your product at...
Brad, I'm going one step further. I'm opening a public blog site, on which I'll probably have my own journal.
adni18, you're a skinner. Lecrayon thinks skinning requires no talent. Now do you understand?
Oh, and for the record, the only sarcasm in my post was in the title. Everything else I said consisted of honest observations of the state of play around here of late.
I very much doubt that what I said will change anything to do with your comments though motion, as to be honest you're one of the few to have made some constructive criticism after your initial outburst. I'm sure all the complaints about the rating system aren't falling on deaf ears, and that a compromise will be made somewhere along the line.
My point was that I'm tired of people complaining endlessly about supposed injustices against them, but not trying to find a mutually acceptable solution to the problems they throw virtual tantrums over. It wasn't directed toward any individual people, as the things I mentioned have happened time and time again here by a range of different people. I just don't see the point in all these people leaving messages on the board saying 'I'm leaving and deleting all my work because of
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