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Topic Started: Jul 14 2010, 04:42 PM (271 Views)
Simblyne
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Hi, I'm Simblyne. *waves* :) I just joined b/c I was looking for an invisionfree skin, and I thought I'd sign up and try to learn how to skin myself.
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Tariq
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may the odds be ever in your favor
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Hey there! *waves back* Welcome to ZNR. :D Good luck with skinning, it's a lot of fun!
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RyanF
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My Comedy Drama
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Welcome, Simblyne. :) I hope you find something nice.

Let us know if you'd like some help. :ryan:
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operalust
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Welcome to the community, enjoy! :)
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Eccentric Feline
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梦想
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Hiya, Simblyne!

You came to the right place to learn how to skin! ^_^ When you have a print, or anything you'd like to share, please post it up in the Showcase forum. I'm sure we'd all love to see your work / offer our opinions. :D
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Pando
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Welcome to ZNR!

Here are a few links I put together, they are helpful.
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Firefox Add-Ons:
Web Developer - A good add-on, it allows you to view stuff like external site images, the CSS of a website, and if you go to CSS ---> View Style Information it'll show you the snippet of CSS of what you're hovering over above the tab bar.
Colorzilla - A good one for colors, click the little icon at the bottom left to view the RGB and HTML color codes of any color. It'll even stay after you turn it off. Just don't hover over any links.
Websites:
3 piece h2 - Custom h2's that have 3 pieces.
Zetaboards Documentation - The Wikia for Zetaboards, comes with lots of useful tutorials.
-- Make a Step-by-Step Zetaboards theme: Gives you a step-by-step tutorial on making a Zetaboards theme. It's actually a tutorial on making Zetaboards Midnight, but you should use your own images and color codes.
-- Zetaboards CSS Guide - A page containing images of Zetaboards pages, with outlines of the CSS snippet areas. VERY good for a medium-advanced themer, when you have outgrown the "Make a Step-by-Step Zetaboards theme".
-- Basic CSS Index - A page containing basic CSS commands.
-- Default Image Set and Zeta Original - The images, layout, and CSS of Zeta Original.
-- Components for a Fluid Theme - Some tips on making a fluid theme.
-- Dangers of Ripping - A page outlining the dangers of ripping.
-- Theme Tutorials - Tutorials on a lot of theme-related stuff.
-- CSS Image Borders - Custom theme image borders.

Please note: An advanced themer doesn't need to make a fancy theme with fancy images. An advanced themer makes themes good on the eyes that flows together. Even though custom images are nice.


Zetaboards themes are pretty good though too, after all InvisionFree is a lot weaker than Zetaboards so more people use Zetaboards, and you have a lot more flexibility and a bigger chance of someone using your theme (that, and there are over 6,000 IF skins here, compared to the 300 Zetaboards themes).
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pokegirl_g-ZNR
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Welcome to ZNR!
I hope you're enjoyinh yourself here. :)
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Helena-ZNR
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Welcome Simblyne. :)

I hope you find everything you are looking for here. I'll be interested to watch your progress as a new skinner. It can be a fun journey as you find your own style. :happy:
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