Thanks!

Zubaz, are you creating a standard list of general questions or are you going to make a list for each Master? Each Master does have their own expertise and choice of skinning i.e. WB, WP, DesktopX etc. Just wondering.  

Each issue in the series will have a few questions to all the masters on general topics.  Some questions will be directed to specific masters.  Some may also apply only to a particular expertise of masters (for example the DX masters).

I'll cull specific questions and answers and attempt to present them in a thematic way.  Some answers may be for a specific question but might be more suitable for a later theme.  I'll save those for later issues.

Someone may send me a question specific to a particular master.  I might open the question up and have other masters take a stab at answering.

I've got a number of goals here that I think can be met with this format:
What makes a Master to you?
What makes you a Master?
Who's the man (woman) behind the master?
What's it like being a Master?
What a day in the life of a master like?

Sprinkled around there are going to be some of the technical expertise questions I'm getting like:
How do you start a X?
What do you like about X?

It's all about getting to know these folks a little better.  I guess that's it in a nutshell.

As an avid skin user but a yet-to-be creator, my questions are necessarily coming from the novice skinner's point-of-view. Here goes…

1. Where would you suggest that newbies start if they want to try their hands at skinning? In other words, what's the best way to develop solid fundamentals without biting off too much at first? What order of progression would you suggest, in terms of degree of project complexity?

2. What tools do you recommend for the novice skinner? What tools do you find to be indispensible?

3. Which aspects of skinning do you recommend newbies concentrate on first? It's been said that "the devil is in the details," so which details should we concentrate on getting right?

4. Which pitfalls should novice skinners avoid? What are the "design killers" to watch out for?

5. How do you undertake a skinning project? What steps do you follow in conceptualizing, designing, assembling, testing and distributing a new skin? What kind of post-release activities should we expect to do?

6. Where do you get your ideas from? What are your inspirations?

7. Where do you turn for technical advice and support?

8. How do you take into account various software and OS versions when designing your skins? What are the pitfalls to watch out for?

9. What was the toughest skinning challenge you've faced and how did you work through it?

10. What do you wish more skinners would concentrate on? What would you like to see from the skinning community?

11. Which of your contributions to the skinning community are you most proud of?

That's it for now. If I think of more, I'll let you know.

Good luck with the series--I'm looking forward to it!

Nice questions RRRozie.

I agree. I'd like to see all of them answered!

Thanks for all the responses.
I'll open a new thread after this issue is out.

Hey Zubaz - I tried to reply to your email but it was rejected multiple times as suspected spam. Here is the text of my reply:


Hi Aaron,

count me in, I will attempt to provide guttural grunts signifying
answers, occasionally I might even manage complete sentences.

cheers,

Matt | Tiggz

Rejected mine too... You know I'm in just so long as I'm awake and breathing.

You can put my name in the blackboard.   

 

PS: mines was rejected too

If you all would stop sending out all thos viagra adverts it wouldn't be such a problem.   

Night Train and MikeB were able to get through.  Gues who's going to get the featured spots? 

Add my name also - Same as Tiggz, email return rejected as spam   

I'll input what I can.

with any thing a little fluff makes us look a little more human and not just a nick on a screen...


my True questions


How many skin full time? as in this is their daily main stay and how many hold down other jobs?

What is your favorite pizza combination?

What was your defining factor to start skinning? who or what prompted your skinning career

what is your favorite app to skin?

do you ever apply old themes and relive the old days?

is there any changes you would like to see in terms of skinning apps? like maybe making it easyer to skin an app? (trilllian is a killer to skin)

does it bother you when a Fan directly contacts you to say thanks or show their appreciation?



more to come as i think of them..

Likely next issue

My email didnt get returned so I'll assume you got my response of "count me in".