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DoctorNick’s 2005 Skinning Resolutions

A list for one who wants to skin it all...

Published on December 30, 2004 By DoctorNick In Skinning

2004 was my first leap into this skinning business. For 2005 I plan to go in a much different direction...Here I’ll set a goal list for myself for this year, when I hope to really become a true SKINNER.

Enjoy, and feel free to comment or critique as you please.

1) Make a WindowBlinds skin! (high quality, and with none of that trendy aero/longhorn/aqua or whatever the latest crap is now, of course) This means I have to actually sit down for a while and have some patience with Photoshop and CorelDRAW…not to mention SkinStudio.

2) Create some icons! I’ve drawn out a few, but I have some troubles putting my ideas into pixels. Can you smell a suite yet?

3) Post more on the WinCustomize and Skinning.net forums! I’m more active on the Stardock IRC, but I like the boards too. I mean, who doesn’t want to miss out on the WB/msstyle arguments and the other nonsense?

4) Put together some tutorials for ObjectDock Plus, ObjectBar 2, and hopefully some others as well.

Maybe I should make a tutorial entitled “Annoying Users: The 7 Deadly Errors” after seeing all of the controversy that's taken place here over the past year.

5) Start to learn some Jscript so I can program DesktopX widgets. I’d love to try to play with Bungie.net’s Halo 2 XML stats!

6) Continue to help out some SDC_Guests on #SDCentral and help them on their path to skinning enlightenment…

7) Attend some more SkinStudio classes hosted Skinartistry’s Bones2112 and NightTrain2002! I’ve missed the past two weeks, but the one class I did go to I had a lot of fun!

8) Look into getting some new Trillian 3 skins…there’s a real shortage of them! (And new plugins, cmon Cerulean!)

Comments (Page 1)

WOM

on Dec 30, 2004

WOM hopes you accomplish your goals.

DoctorNick

on Dec 30, 2004

Super cool.

Watson

on Dec 30, 2004

Watson's 2005 Skinning Resolutions

1.Finish Reading This Thread.

That's All, Thanks For Listening.

Reppiks

on Dec 30, 2004

Sounds like a plan! I wish you luck, and I agree, the classes at Skinartistry are exelent! Happy New Year Dr. Nick

Scarebear

on Dec 30, 2004

Big list. Good luck on all of that

Essencay

on Dec 31, 2004

Best O'Luck to you Dr.Nick.

DoctorNick

on Dec 31, 2004

Maybe I should have #9 be "Make an original avatar first"

butch123

on Dec 31, 2004

Hope you accomplish,your goals. good luck.

Mackintosh

on Dec 31, 2004

That's quite a mountain to climb you've set for yourself Doc

The best thing about New Year's resolutions though, is that we tend to forget and/or abandon them soon after making them

That's not to say I don't believe in you

Best of luck mate, hopefully by the end of 2005 you'll be 8 for 8, or should that rather be 9 for 9

danilloOc

on Dec 31, 2004

best of luck to you Doc and if you need any help, just drop me a line

47songs

on Dec 31, 2004

I'm with you, Doc. I also missed the last two weeks of the classes at Skin Artistry. As a matter of fact I only attended about 15 minutes of one of the classes. It's the holidays you know! But I'm hoping to join in next week if possible! And those goals of yours are quite lofty, but I'm sure attainable if you've got the mindset for it! Good luck to you!!! This skinning stuff IS fun, isn't it?

DigitalCHET

on Dec 31, 2004

Good going Nick! Good idea to set goals and work towards them... I'm sure you'll accomplish what you set out to do but if you need any help along the way I'm always around and willing to help where I am able.

Cheers...

avonlady

on Jan 03, 2005

john smith

on Jan 03, 2005

Cordelia

on Jan 04, 2005

Dr. Nick - we missed you at the SkinArtistry class too! I didn't go last week either; I'm not sure they had one 'cuz of the holiday and all. I'll be there on Wednesday though! Good luck with your resolutions, they are all worthy goals!

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