What I Do In My Spare Time #3: Outback Skin (Windows Media)

[Darius Wey]

<img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20050316-OutbackSkinv100.jpg" /><br /><br />And now for the third and final skin on offer. "Outback" is very different to both <a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36530">"Bubble"</a> and <a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36671">"Shady"</a>, so if you're interested in finding out the thoughts I had when designing this one, read on! <!><br /><br />Having lived in Australia all my life, I decided to add a bit of local touch to this skin. So what can be seen? The colours are drawn from <a href="http://www.australianairlines.com.au/">Australian Airlines</a>, which makes great use of orange and white (used in the main interface of the skin) as well as black (which is used in the push-button effects). Then there's that slight shade of blue, which any today theme with a blue taskbar can provide. On top of all that, the orange is somewhat symbolic of the Australian outback, so all up, you'll find "Outback" to be a relatively flat, clean skin.<br /><br />Once again, it is available for free at <a href="http://www.handango.com/ampp/store/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&productId=160533&productType=2">Handango</a> and <a href="http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=17103&associateid=204">PocketGear</a>, so if you're interested, please feel free to download it and test it out. If you've got thoughts, I'd love to hear them! :-)

[Mike Temporale]

Nice Work! I've really enjoyed your skins. 8)

[PDANEWBIE]

third and final skin on offer

Hanging up your hat on Skinning? Or just gonna start doing them privately?

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

Hey Darius, your new skin matches your avatar! ;)

Nice work my man. I notice that all your skins have a nice clean look to them and each have a dominant color theme going on... first white, then black, and now orange...

[KTamas]

Very nice :)

[ctmagnus]

Very cool 8)

Fortunately for you, however, I have Stop mapped to a hardware button. :p

[btorbik]

Way cool. Darius! :mrgreen:

[Darius Wey]

Thanks everyone. :D

Hanging up your hat on Skinning? Or just gonna start doing them privately?

No, I wouldn't do it privately. I'm going to be putting the skinning on hold as I need the time for other committments I have. However, I may pick it up again sometime later in the year.

[Darius Wey]

Fortunately for you, however, I have Stop mapped to a hardware button. :p

I was waiting for someone to say that. ;)

I decided to adopt a different approach when making this skin, so that meant not including the Stop button. It just leaves a little extra room so the skin doesn't appear too "messy". Besides, it also saves me the extra work involved in drawing a box or two. :P