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Published on August 20, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

WinCustomize, in partnership with Maxthon International Limited is pleased to announce the Maxthon 2 Skin Competition!  Starting this week, skinners from all over the globe will be able to design, build and submit their own custom Maxthon 2.0 browser skins to WinCustomize.com to compete for prizes and bragging rights in the skinning community.

Maxthon is one of the most customizable web browsers out there and has taken the Chinese market by storm with over 10 million users world-wide, and just this month released the final 2.0 version of the software to users.  With the release of 2.0 and it's vast number of improvements, now is the perfect time to check out the software and get to skinning it!

Most browsers either aren't skinnable, or have limited customization capabilities, making Maxthon an ideal browser alternative to those wanting to customize every aspect of their Windows experience!

Entries will be judged by WinCustomize and Maxthon staff and select community members.  We're really looking forward to see what great designs the skinning community will come out with!

For those interested, the contest details are as follows:

Eligibility:

  • Must be 18 years of age or older
  • No geographic restrictions
  • Must have a WinCustomize account

Submission Rules:

  • Skins must work with Maxthon 2.0
  • Skin must be new and original work.  You may NOT submit skins that have been previously posted to any website or for any contest.
  • Artwork used in skin must be your own.

Prizes:

  • Most Creative: Canon SD800 Digital Camera
  • Most Usable: Apple iPod Nano 4GB
  • Most Popular: Wacom Graphire 4x5 Tablet

Judging

  • All entries for Most Creative and Most Usable will be judged by a panel made up of WinCustomize and Maxthon staff.
  • Most Popular will be judged by a combination of panel voting and user voting.

Deadline:

  • Skins must be uploaded to WinCustomize no later than 11:59pm EST on October 31st, 2007 (UPDATED)

Important Links

Any questions?  Either leave them in the comments here, or send an email to mikec AT stardock DOT com with the subject "Maxthon Skin Contest"


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on Aug 20, 2007
Cool...let the contests begin.
on Aug 20, 2007
Sounds intresting, might actually have to check into this... as a side note, after looking at the site and the skins already there I wonder how many of them asked permission for thier submissions   
on Aug 20, 2007
Ewww Maxthon 2 is a shell of what 1.x was. They drank the google-juice.
on Aug 20, 2007
is google-juice good ? lol
on Aug 20, 2007
We have a Maxthon Gallery at WinCustomize.com? That one was news to me.
I used it once a long time ago. Maybe I will try it again. 10 million Chinese cant be wrong.
on Aug 20, 2007
Yikes! Just looked at the skinning method....... too tough for me!
on Aug 20, 2007
Hmmm... Maxthon vs. Firefox... which is better?
on Aug 20, 2007

10 million Chinese cant be wrong.

Or was that 'Wong'? [some jokes are really old]....

on Aug 20, 2007
That's incredible news! I've been using Maxthon for years. I haven't liked the skins for M2 yet, but with the talent here...let's just say I'm giddy.

I don't know how much this will help, but the skin Escape the Net for Maxthon 1 was the most downloaded and used. Possibly for usability and cleanliness.
on Aug 20, 2007
Yikes! Just looked at the skinning method....... too tough for me!


Tell me about it.
I would love to enter this contest, but trying to skin this browser is very difficult. There is no app (that I know of) which can be used to skin Maxthon, and the wiki skinning reference isn't much help either. After hours of rigor, I still can't figure out how to do seemingly simple things, and you have to edit everything in the code too!
If anyone could point me to some good sources, that would be much appriciated!
on Aug 20, 2007
Hmmm... Maxthon vs. Firefox... which is better?

Nope, Maxthon = Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer (Maxthon, AvantBrowser,...) vs. Firefox vs. Opera vs. Safari vs. Konqueror...
on Aug 21, 2007
Sounds like a marketing ploy to me....
on Aug 21, 2007
Sounds like a marketing ploy to me....


exactly.
on Aug 21, 2007
Hmmm... Maxthon vs. Firefox... which is better?



e... maybe firefox
but i'll try maxthon
on Aug 21, 2007
Sounds like a marketing ploy to me...

A skinner or two get a prize
The community gets skins
The browser gets publicity

Everyone's a winner!
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