02-16-2004, 10:13 AM -
Okay. I just finished this and would like some input on it. Lately, I've been running out of room on my Taskbar with all the different plugins, etc. So I decided to go back to a skin design I worked on a while back but improve on it. 
One of the biggest problems I think that all of us have found is that there doesn't appear to be one website with all the info we want. Daily weather, 5 day forecasts, UV, allergy, etc. are impossible to find in one place. Therefore, my skin or skins use 4 different websites and most of them are only in the USA. If anyone can find the same info in other countries, please make it available to users not from the USA. ???
By using these skins in a menu, you are able to free up valuable space in the Taskbar. Secondly, if you create a new TLB just for this, you get some great benefits. You can control the way the menu looks and since the skins are in the menu, you can configure the way the skin looks because I use a transparent background. In the picture below, I use a sky background as the overlay image that is stretched and use a black menu border (configured in the TLB skins section). As you can see, this allows the user to do a little bit of skin designing for their own taste.
My question is - should I upload these skins as one complete version, four separate skins, or do both options? Please let me know. I still have to write the readme text files before I do.
BTW - The smiley faces are programmed to change with the info for the Air Quality and for the UV Risk.
One of the biggest problems I think that all of us have found is that there doesn't appear to be one website with all the info we want. Daily weather, 5 day forecasts, UV, allergy, etc. are impossible to find in one place. Therefore, my skin or skins use 4 different websites and most of them are only in the USA. If anyone can find the same info in other countries, please make it available to users not from the USA. ???
By using these skins in a menu, you are able to free up valuable space in the Taskbar. Secondly, if you create a new TLB just for this, you get some great benefits. You can control the way the menu looks and since the skins are in the menu, you can configure the way the skin looks because I use a transparent background. In the picture below, I use a sky background as the overlay image that is stretched and use a black menu border (configured in the TLB skins section). As you can see, this allows the user to do a little bit of skin designing for their own taste.
My question is - should I upload these skins as one complete version, four separate skins, or do both options? Please let me know. I still have to write the readme text files before I do.
BTW - The smiley faces are programmed to change with the info for the Air Quality and for the UV Risk.