Stick at it Phoon, take it element by element, and then one day, out of the blue, you realise that it's finished

There is always that 1st one that you can never really figure out how to finish it, but once it's done you'll be on easy street.
You do great work Phoon, I cant wait to see you tackle WB

IR took a month cause he wasted so much time here at the message board

hehe look who's talkin' APOC

Or you could do what I do...create something nice (one guy rated it a 9 ), but because it's so extraordinarily out-of-the-ordinary that it only enjoys limited use. Ah well, the price of individuality...(or just plain being weird,I forget which).

IR took a month cause he wasted so much time here at the message board

Only a month??...Psssh, thats nothing compared to how long it took me to do my 1st...

I opened it up one day and looked at the front page for over an hour. The I closed it. didn't touch a thing. The next day I did the same. Finally the next day I figured out how to change the fonts. The next day came the colors. The next day I started messing with the simpler graphics. the next day I kept messing around with the simple graphics. I am still messing around in the simple graphics. Although I am slowly moving on to make my graphics more complex. When it comes down to it skinstudio is actually fairly easy to use. Its the little oddities in the skinning itself that makes life difficult. I always have to play with the taskbar alone by itself for at least a day just to get things to line up right. I think that is has a very steep learning curve, but its a real short climb. After one skin you pretty much understand how things work (or at least you should) and you can concentrate on how to make better skins next time, or totally different ideas on how to make a skin. As for me I have succesfully made 2 skins on my own, am working on a third, and have converted many msstyles to windowblinds. It might actually be easier to start by converting the msstyles to windowblinds because usually the conversion isn't 1 to 1. So you have to go into the program and figure out how to do stuff like say adjust the content margins on the titlebar so the system icon doesn't cover up the titlebar text. I hope you can figure out how to use skinstudio, its a lot of fun.