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Need a Programmer/Developer to make a WMP Skin for me

By jwright
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Sounds like an interesting mix of adding custom functions to normal winamp skins adjusted with not just the standard free tools and web design, looked around a bit on your pages in firefox and found some high price range products. Corporate Web Design is another thing it seems to border. Maybe adni18, art director and experienced skinner here, Snowman who teaches skinning, skins and adminstrates here, also on a corporate level or Polaris, an experienced PHP coder could recommend someone if they are busy theirselves. I dont use winamp but looked around a bit in our winamp skin section and Nullsofts pages plus some winamp skinning tool pages and webdesign forums. <br /> <br />Is the skin meant to be an interactive giveaway, and once you refer to WM D instead of P, still learning what that D is. If the WMD is no spelling mistake it can be a more modern type of what flash player used to do in web design. <br /> <br />Typical WM P skins on our site tend to add nice private looks but you need an installation and corporate looks on a high level considering whom you serve. The logo and brand could be easily included like the playlist, I think, with tools at no price worth mentioning. <br /> <br />So a custom installer would just install the normal player (legal clarification of giving the player itself away for this via Nullsoft I guess incl. price of commercial license for that, might even be the main expense item, although for private use some free versions also seem to exist) with your skin set to default displaying your looks with logo etc. and your playlists. The installer creation - various ways of handling that. Could even google for how to get that done by whom with what means. For this it would be helpful to get further knowledge of what OS platforms most of your customers typically are performing on, Linux, custom operating systems, windows, apple like and so forth. <br /> <br />Thinking about it. Your product itself is like 3 components of a training presentation for usage of a drawing engineers tool, right? <br /> <br />Your current flash presentation seems impressive and spicing up its appeal with looks the way planned a good move. While you are at it, even though on your page linked to in your profile, I think the product should dominate and not the looks of the page itself, another thing a skinner might be sensing is wanting to get someone of your own crew to just slightly adapt background looks into something less neutral, more stimulating and classy up to date like. Either have it subtly shine a wee bit or cautiously test 2 or 3 moderate alterations <br />of background colors still allowing for a 90% contrast to the majority of colors adhesive with your products, page elements like the demo shows, and lets say enlargeable thumb displaying the future skin/installer combo pack to download. This could be done with methods similar to what you already were using for the current design which already is addressing quite some clients - so hopefully no major additional cost for that. <br /> <br />Currently a bit more into learning basic things myself, yet that may not be the point, IOW it looks as if external help is not necessarily a must when putting together what you almost have already if combining these things <br />

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Thank you for the reply! <br /> <br />The WMD that I was referring to stands for Windows Media Download. It is a package of files that includes an icon that one can click on to launch a custom interface that is basically a skin over top of Windows Media Player. In addition to the custom appearance of the skin, I would like it to import a playlist of lessons so that a viewer can watch our training in the correct sequence. This needs to be in Windows Media Player because we are planning on using Digital Rights Management technology to protect our content. <br /> <br />Are there any experienced Windows Media Player Skinners here? <br /> <br />Thank you! <br />Jason Wright
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Good thing I asked what it“s about, then. We do have some skinners - so what do they think? Interesting. So 1 of the few things missing might be the custom playlist + design. Sounds like there might even be a little reward. So please, if skinners know of ANYONE else if you dont feel up to it yourselves, give this man a little link or tip instead. Long live da Base! ;) <br /> <br />If there“s not enough response, you could retitle it a bit later. What do I know? Need WMP skin offer reward, or something to encourage non developers. As to them, here“s a thread leading to our helpful php programmer polaris: <br /> <br />http://www.skinbase.org/msgboard.php?topicid=730 <br /> <br />Luckily, in fact some of the very honorable skinners do not always have nothing but money in their minds, but either way, I wish you good luck and think it is a challenge. <br /> <br />Personally, I could vision a future area added to our skinning sections - corporate skin designs our artists made for which there could be several means of motivations. These might even be copyguarded a bit so as not to be cheaply plagiated. How did find you out about us (and welcome, btw!)? <br /> <br />

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Hey, some more experienced Skinners are back, Snowman, grimspoon, Scarebear, adni18, whom would you“ve recommended for this? If you know anyone tell me and also send this man a message please ==~
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Never skinned WMP. Don&acute;t know anybody personally that has either sorry.
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