WC Wiki Week - Day 2: WindowBlinds Tutorial & SK Originals

Published on September 25, 2007 By Zoomba In OS Customization

Day two of WC Wiki Week brings us to one part of the new site that's really the key aspect of the Wiki: User-provided documentation in the form of tutorials and how-tos. A user manual is one thing, it tells you what buttons do what, and where to find various bits of info, but it doesn't really tell you how to fully use the software. This is especially true with creative tools such as Skin Studio and Photoshop when creating a WindowBlinds skin. So today's featured page is appropriately a tutorial on creating a Start Panel for a WindowBlinds Skin.

Check out the article here.

It's part 1 of a two part series on skinning the Start Menu in Windows using Skin Studio and Adobe Photoshop. It's packed with screenshots to illustrate the process, and if you go through both part 1 and part 2, you'll end up with a completely skinned Start Menu. It's one of the better user-created tutorials currently on the wiki.

So it's fitting that today's featured contributor would be SK Originals, the author of the Start Menu tutorial. SK Originals has contributed a lot to the wiki in addition to his tutorials, providing edits and content on a number of product pages and other tutorials. He was one of our earliest additions to the wiki project and has been a great help in bringing in content focused on teaching others how to skin. This is exactly the sort of activity we were hoping for when launching the wiki.

Thank you to SK Originals for your ongoing contributions!

Comments

kenwas

on Sep 25, 2007

Thank you SK! Your efforts are appreciated.

SKoriginals

on Sep 25, 2007

Thanks Zoomba and kenwas

I've been rather busy as of late and so wanted to add more to the tutorial section... but alas life has a way of sucking up ones time now and then

The tutorial section could really use some 'filling out' especially with the new WB6 and SKS6 soon to be out 'publicly'. SKS6 has links built into the program which lead directly to the specific tutorial page for that item, those could really use a good start. Even if what you might add isn't complete or whatever, the beauty of a wiki is it CAN be corrected and so forth

So heres a call to everyone... "Add more tutorials!" hehe

As a side note, WC already has many tutorials in the article section, with some permission(s) from the author(s) (or maybe the authors themselves) those could be added to the wiki too. Would make finding them a lot easier and user friendly.

sViz

on Sep 25, 2007

SK's WB tutorial is one of the best on the site. It's thorough and to the point. If you're looking to get a feel for writing tutorials this one helps alot.

Congrats SK, and thanks for your contributions!

Bebi Bulma

on Sep 25, 2007

As a side note, WC already has many tutorials in the article section, with some permission(s) from the author(s) (or maybe the authors themselves) those could be added to the wiki too. Would make finding them a lot easier and user friendly.

Working on it....

Good stuff Shawn.

messiah1

on Sep 25, 2007

Yeah SK...great work. No better way to learn that with a great tutorial.

Quentin94

on Sep 27, 2007

Congrats SK

good work

MySecret

on Sep 27, 2007

Pleased to see you featured SK, well deserved

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