ICQ broke on me around the same time. I'm in #skinnerz right now.

what do you mean MadIce?

oh evil

Here are my suggestions:

1. Create an "official" moderated (and I insist on moderated) channel on IRC. That would let artists have instant interactivity between them and increase the sense of community.

2. Create a brief one-page-only monthly or weekly registration-based newsletter covering topics like new stuff, design techniques, etc. and which would serve as an incentive to attract people to the site.

3. Have regular contributors/columnists that would offer magazine-like in-depth articles on whatever subject (thightly integrated with the newsletter concept which should direct subscribers to the corresponding article on the site)

4. Create regularely a variaty of contests with prizes, if possible. People love contests.

Of course, each of these suggestions would need to be developped further but for now I think this gives a good starting point for discussions

Crea: Right. In my case they even called me Sir!

I know I am old, but don't tell me.

A Cursorex section .
Being able to log in and see your stats on the main page (ala skinz.org. I think this was mentioned up above by Boxxi as well.

Here are some ideas for you:

- Expand the Author Info section a little with some extra information like: # of skins you've rated, # of forum posts, submissions etc...

- Move the authors submissions so they are shown in the profile like skinz.org used to do it and not on a separate page.

- Have a Random link to take you to a random skin/wallpaper if your feeling lucky or adventurous

- Have a thumbnail of the DD and DS over at deviantART, and a thumbnail of the featured skins over at LOS and SkinBase.org, it would probably have to be downloaded locally every 24hrs and loaded from the WC server - as not to steal any bandwidth.

- Hold a contest every few months with a certain theme, or for a random skins category.

- Make the skins for the site easier to change (without going into your profile) with a drop-down combo box or something... you could maybe put it up near where it says 'Welcome [yourname]'

- The ability to edit your posts would be kind of handy too.

- Also an option to set the 'rating limit' on the skins when your do a Search, so that you can specifically limit the quality (i.e. see EVERYTHING or see only the best (9-10)


Hope these help

maybe 5 comments is not enough

I have suggestions for new skinning sections:
- Create a section for tutorials, by the skinners, any work can help the newbies (like me)
- Create a section for Sonique. It's a great skinneable program, can expand the skinners imagination! This is a site there are many great skinners, can do very nice skins for this program. The official site of sonique is full of repeated stile skins, or poor skins. This programs needs more than this!

Alexandrie: yeah, 5 comments is probably not enough to constitute an 'Elite' skin... however it is mainly the user rating that would count, and the fact that over 10 people voted it highly.

... you could have an amazing skin with great ratings and not many people have commented because it is just so perfect and people don't have much to say, therefore it would be a real shame that it didn't make it in because not enough people bothered to comment on it

Also I didn't realise I used the word 'Elite' like that, it's not suppose to be associated with the hacker 31337 word, sorry, maybe Elite isn't the best for for it...