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Welcome to WinCustomize 2005!

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Welcome to WinCustomize 2005!

Bear with us as wel get settled in..

from JoeUser Forums

The new WinCustomize is here!

Bear with us as there will no doubt be issues that we have to work through over the next couple of weeks. But we hope you like what you see so far.

The new site is designed to be more steamlined for both new users and power users. It also has a lot more content than the previous site and provides a bunch of new ways for users to participate (with more ways to come).

Let us know what you think.  If you're running into performance issues, let us know. That's the part that's the trickiest to resolve since WC has so much traffic (millions of different users per month) that even one bug can cascade mightily.!FROGCARE!

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Reply #76 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Dear WC webmaster,

This site is pretty cool... you just need to remove the letter-spacing CSS attributes from the WC CSS so that the text is more readable. Try adding line-height attributes to make the text easier to scan. Letter-spacing produces poor results as you can see by the inconsistent-ness of the words on the site.

Typography is probably the biggest part of the WC site. It needs to have decent readable text that is easy to scan. The old WC had this same problem by using a MS sans font. Now the new site has some amateurish, invalid CSS.

If you need help making valid CSS... just let me know.
Reply #77 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Looks fine, just got some probs with Opera, some of the sections, mainly the the left, appear to resize badly... I'll mail a screenshot to whoevers interested

Email

Otherwise looking good,
Max
Siege of Centauri
Reply #78 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I like the new site but I also miss the old one...I guess change is for the better..Still exploring but thanks for all the hard work
Reply #79 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It seems that if I log in with Kazz0r and my pass, I reload at the same page but not logged ion. But if I do that with fake account names/passwords I get sent to the sign-up page.


Hey Kazz0r, i hacked the gibson and retrieved your Username and pw, did the login thing and was able to login.

i looked you up with the nickname of "Kazz0r" and used the information that was returned and was able to login/logout just fine. if you want, email me with the email address you login with just to verify i am using the correct information. [email protected]

BTW, i am one of the developers of WC2k5

Pundi
Reply #80 from WinCustomize Forums Top

#16 by Derek (Anonymous User)
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
I get an error when using mozilla


Hey Derek, i also have tried mozilla and it works fine for me. A side question, at what time(eastern standard) did you try using mozilla? We were in a frenzy for a bit doing updates and what not so you could have just been cought inbetween an upload/change of sorts


Pundi
Reply #81 from WinCustomize Forums Top
#35 by reggeduser
Tuesday, December 07, 2004


When going to Link I get the asp.net error page...


Hi ReggedUser, we have spotted the problem, it's being looked at right now!

Pundi
Reply #82 from WinCustomize Forums Top
do appreciate the possibility to search through authors' library and the many sorting options I can make based on my interest.

What I miss, thanks the old system, is the option to see and search authors' library sorted by GALLERY. Maybe I missed it, but so far all the skins, from all galleries come out mixed together.

That's very disorganized and hard to see what is what. Bootskin, wallpaper, coorsors, logons? Thank you all for caring, though....


Can you give a specific example of this? If you are on wincustomize.com, we have a gallery bar on the left hand side which lets you select your specific gallery, this does not appear on all pages, but is easily accessed from the home page. Also we do have a gallery tab which gives you a default view of all libraries, and you can click through to your desired library.

Hope this helps

Pundi
Reply #83 from WinCustomize Forums Top

#69 by otto888 2 TEMP
Wednesday, December 08, 2004

I get this when I goto Prefinces Server Error in '/' Application.
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We are aware of this problem, and will be resolved ASAP! thanks for letting us know

Pundi
Reply #84 from WinCustomize Forums Top
For the most part, great performance increase. It does hang once in a while.


Does anyone have a fix for the squishing of screenshots?


I have uploaded 1280x1024 and 1280x960, both of which are shown as square.


I never had a problem at old site, so I suspect issue is here at new site.


This was one thing we had to tweak from the old site due to performance page loads. We tried to give a "Big Enough" Preview so our users can get a feel for the skin, also gave the option of enlarging by clicking on the image if they wanted to see the screenshot in full effect.

Hope that answers your question.

Pundi.
Reply #85 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I am liking it only marginally more than the old site.

What I really don't like (and can't figure out how to remedy), is that I am now presented with the entire library contents on the left hand side, instead of just the ones I care about.

Can anyone help me out here?

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This is still a feature that we are looking into. We'll definately let you know if and when this feature is implemented in the upcoming releases of the site.

Pundi
Reply #86 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The site does seem somewhat slow but that's not why I'm posting. One minor issue I don't like is the fact that I have to scroll down to see any "Wincustomize News". I come to the sight to see what's new and cool, read any commentaries, etc. before I want to look at skins. Well, quite frankly I use Stardock Central to view Skins for the most part so I normally come to the sight for other things. Maybe allow us to to change this in our settings so that we can control what is displayed first or even displayed at all in the middle of the page. I personally would rather not see "Popular Skins" or the "Featured Suite" that is currently displayed at the top. Running at 1280x1024 and I still have to scroll to see the news.

What do I like about the site? The thumbnails make me drool . I'd love to see these within Stardock Central. They are very, very nice and clean. I also like the tabs.

I did like the idea of being able to control the graphics of the site, being able to have our own "theme" that the site would display in. I'd like to see the old user control or some derivative come back.

Anyhoo, I think overall the site is great. Keep up the good work. I for one think I'm getting my money's worth at WinCustomze and Stardock.
Reply #87 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The preferences page has very few options, one that's not mentioned here is that you can't change the prefix before your nick. I would like a color chooser back. Other than those, it's great.
Reply #88 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hi- i use time waner cable,and it's fast, but when i get on your new site it is slower.When i was using your old site it was really fast.!?!?!?
Reply #89 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Good job with the new site! It's really fast. But I will still miss the "old" Win-site . Habits are hard to break!! But I think we all soon will be comfortable with this great site too!
Reply #90 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The new site looks great (of course). My only issue so far is the ad in the header, I'm a subscriber so I probably don't need to see it thanks...... Any chance the Company might go "public"? If so, I want in!!!
Reply #91 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Trying to access https://www.wincustomize.com/ (without the 'www.') results in an error message:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
Wincustomize.PageBase.Page_Init(Object sender, EventArgs e)
System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e) +0
System.Web.UI.Control.OnInit(EventArgs e) +67
System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +241
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +197
Reply #92 from WinCustomize Forums Top
new site looks cool kinda laggy when loading pages but i think it also has to do with my isps dns servers other then that looks great
Reply #93 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Like your new look. Had a problem getting on 'Wincustomize' a couple of times ( server busy )but sure that will be OK soon. Keep up the GOOD work!!
Reply #94 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The new site looks great (of course). My only issue so far is the ad in the header, I'm a subscriber so I probably don't need to see it thanks...... Any chance the Company might go "public"? If so, I want in!!!


Saw nothing which can be names as "Add"
Reply #96 from WinCustomize Forums Top
OMFG I checked cookies, and wincustomize.com was blocked, therefore no cookie could be stored about being logged in. Now it's fixed. Nevermine
Reply #97 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The thing is though, I couldn't acces my old account, and I couldn't make a new one because my email was already used for the old one. So I made a new email, and made my new account. Can you change the email on this one to my actual email? ([email protected])

P.S. I don't like my other account's username, so don't ask if I want it back
Reply #98 from WinCustomize Forums Top
- Worst than the older, gray, bluegray...sad !
- No customizing option for viewing the articles
- Slow
- No size information before dowloading...and, if I have well understanding, I pay for the dowloading weight ! Not right ?
Reply #99 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Looks Great...Nice to see Wincustomize progressing with the times... LOL!!

It looks really good...Keep up the good work
Reply #100 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Great work with integrating your new style. There are some areas where your navigation could be a little more user friendly. Some items are hard to find and the pages load a little slow, even on a fast connection. The colors are great and the whole site is really flashy. I hope the best of luck with fixing bugs, if you have any. Remember: "The work is only worth doing if it's fun!"