How a skin becomes Featured?

Coolaas · 4th March 2003, 14:44

Hello buddies,
I wana publish a skin and I wana know what couses a skin to be a "featured" one? should I do anything special or just Winamp stuffs decide about it? If I wana be honest I have done this skin for my gf :-) and I wana it be featured.

Thanks

Atmo · 4th March 2003, 15:16

There is no way to guarentee a skin will be featured, (short of paying for the privelidge, or sleeping with the guy that chooses which skins get featured, and even then it'd better be a decent skin).

However, there are a few ways to increase the chance of it being featured.

1. Do something original. Fairly self explanitory, if your skin looks like 50 others on the site then chances are it's not gonna even gonna get nominated for a feature. Doesnt mean you cant make a metallic looking skin, but if you do it'd better have something that makes it stand out.

2. Make sure its functional and complete. Again fairly self explanitory, if all the windows arent skinned (wa2) or theres components missing (wa3) and they dont flow well together its not gonna get featured. For wa2: If you skin any 3rd pary plugins you wont get any more points for completeness (but we may mention it in the review), and skinned cursors count for +/-0.5 points in asthetics.

3. Make it look good. Not all skins that get featured are made by photoshop genius', but they are all pleasing to the eye.

So really, what we're looking for is a skin that jumps out and says "im special". Go do a search for "featured" at the site and you'll have a fair idea of the type of skins we're looking for.

You've probably got a better chance of getting a featured skin if its for winamp3. Its simple numbers, there's nowhere near as many winamp3 skins as there are winamp 2 skins, so mathmatically you have a better chance...But it still has to be a good skin.

Mr Jones · 4th March 2003, 15:17

Moved from GD
Moved to WA2 skins

How does it get featured?

An independant person from outside of Nullsoft/Winamp.com picks all the featured skins, this is increasingly done on the recommendation of the winamp reviewers.

We pick skins that make us go WOWOWOW, suggest them to him, if he agrees they get featured, he's free to pick his own as well however, and often does.

What does a skin need to be featured?
It has to really stand out from the crowd, be well made, be unique, catch a reviwers eye and generally stand out from the crowd.

Failing that, bribe a reviewer I'm open to sexual favours, money, llama porn or a combination of all three.

Why don't you post a pic or something of your skin in here and lets us see.

binary hero · 4th March 2003, 15:22

money and beer can help the process, as mr jones says. arrange for the transfer to any skin reviewer, and it will be shared with the featured skins chooser bloke, and your skin will be featured.

Coolaas · 4th March 2003, 21:02

Thanks buddies! I wana send the screenshot please provide me an e-mail address. I can't do it here :-)

skinme! · 4th March 2003, 21:38

Just attach it to a post? If it's too big use a different file format and make sure you don't have your whole desktop - just Winamp.

Coolaas · 5th March 2003, 12:42

Sorry for the late reply I was in my university. as some reasons I don't wan't a public knowledge that what skin was this thread about :-D so I will be too thankful if one of masters let me post the screenshot as a private message for him. I know I am making it funny! but please help me as it is really important to me, THANKS THANKS AND THANKS again

binary hero · 5th March 2003, 12:46

if it will make you feel better, you can email it to
binarhero(at)madadafish(dot)com

Coolaas · 5th March 2003, 15:33

I appereciate. I sent the mail with the screenshot attached.

Mr Jones · 5th March 2003, 17:03

I still think you should attach it here, in fact I insist....

skinme! · 5th March 2003, 18:17

MJ just wants to oggle at yer bird. Don't let him. Dirty man.

Coolaas · 6th March 2003, 04:25

Did you get my mail buddies? ummm let me know :-)

Mr Jones · 6th March 2003, 10:39

I suspect as BH hasn't posted the screen cap in here yet, that one of the following scenarios has happend....

1)The skin is a lovely pic of said girl, mutilated thru a skin making proggy, causing BH to spontaneously combust.

2)He's gone off on safari to see if he can bag the babe for himself.

3)It was such a "wowowowow" kind of skin thats he's too busy shaking hands with madame palm and her five lovely daughters to post the screen cap.

4)Something else.....

Which one will be right, tune in later folks to find out !

binary hero · 6th March 2003, 10:42

or he is at college and doesn't have access to his email.

there isn't a website that will let me log into a pop3 account is there?

Mr Jones · 6th March 2003, 10:51

Sorry LOL, forgot people still go to school during the day

No outlook on your machine?, most IT people will just install MS office suite with every crappy prog it comes with, outlook included...

Come to think of it, is that the right mailbox details for you up there?
madadafish.com brings back a domain not found result
madasafish.com however brings back an ISP...

and whose binarhero?

Failing that you can send a copy here.

iblowgoats@jones-town.co.uk

Jellby · 6th March 2003, 10:55

Quote:

Originally posted by Mr Jones
... with madame palm and her five lovely daughters ...

Hehe... Now I understand the Mrs Palm and her daughters characters in Terry Pratchett books. It was funny just like that, now it's funnier

Jellby · 6th March 2003, 10:58

Quote:

Originally posted by binary hero
there isn't a website that will let me log into a pop3 account is there?

If I'm not mistaken, you can access to pop3 accounts through yahoo mail.

binary hero · 6th March 2003, 11:03

bah, it is madasafish.com

stupid keyboards.

Mr Jones · 6th March 2003, 11:12

A poor workman always blames his tools

binary hero · 6th March 2003, 11:16

i never made any references to myself being good in the first place

Coolaas · 6th March 2003, 12:13

oh my god! lemme get in the game too!!! buddies would u like me to send it to iblowgoats@jones-town.co.uk ? or Dear BinaryHero got the image successfully up to now?
Please hurry! I need my masterpiece (

) online sooner.

Thank you

Mr Jones · 6th March 2003, 12:36

You can send it there, or you can not bother, either way you could have saved us two days of posting around if you'd simply attached the thing in the first place.

Up to you, the mail box I posted there will expire in one hour from me posting this message, send now or forever hold your silence.

Coolaas · 6th March 2003, 12:58

oo ok! I apologize for that. yes I know I took lots of time for this. I am sending the mail now a quarter after MJ post.

I apologize again

this is about end of our story!

Mr Jones · 6th March 2003, 13:48

Appears we were all wrong, mmmm, blue.....

Altho, still not sure why you couldnt attach it yourself in the first place...

Coolaas · 6th March 2003, 14:10

hehe! o my dear friend I COULD! but as I said I didn't want it happen for public view in this thread !!! but no matter anyway, I REALLY appreciate your note & thank you. now tell me if I was wrong about its qualification for being featured

Krynis · 6th March 2003, 18:58

i like it but i dont think it would get featured

Cleanup · 6th March 2003, 19:58

I like the bevels on it, but yeah, I agree with Krynis. It doesn't have that WOWOWOWOWOWOW. Erm. Yes.

Coolaas · 7th March 2003, 03:07

mmm ok friends, although a lot of time has baan spent using 3ds max, and photoshop to make it stand out, I don complain. maybe it is not really special, perhaps it is not as good as those that have been featured up to now. I wanted to make someone happy seems that it is impossible.
may I know BinaryHero and MJ idea too? there is really no hope ?

binary hero · 7th March 2003, 08:47

as we said so many posts ago, money could get this featured. but on it's own it's all been done already - keep working, you'll get better.

Mr Jones · 7th March 2003, 08:56

It's good, certainly better than a lot of skins that make it to the database, but , well it just dosn't jump off the page at me and scream "feature my you bitch, feature me"

Keep trying though, you obviously have the talent.

Jellby · 7th March 2003, 11:40

Many of us have never had a featured skin... and we don't actually mind, we skin for ourselves and whoever likes our work. A featured skin is nice, but not needed at all

P.S. When I started, I too wanted my first skin to be featured, and I didn't understand why it wasn't... Now I still don't understand why some skins are featured and none of mine are, but as I said, I don't mind

Coolaas · 7th March 2003, 12:00

Ok! Thanks for your advises grandpapas!!!! :-D with no jock I Thank all of you for knowing this important and posting for me. I hope at least my skin gets published sooner as I have uploaded it a while ago and still it is not published on winamp.com

It is my final post at this thread. my last request: please delete the whole thread from database

Thanks Thanks & thanks for anything.

binary hero · 7th March 2003, 12:03

you can't delete this thread! it's wonderful!

and i'm sure someone will get round to reviewing it soon enough (though last night i did get two "sorry, no components found", then it just started showing me skins i had just reviewed. crazy database).

chrismale · 27th March 2003, 09:21

Hi and Hello!

Well, my skin seems to be (one of) the featured skin(s) of today. Now, what does this mean? 'Cause "featured skin" only displays in the Author's Comment Field?

Is this kind of featuring different from being displayed on the mainsite?

'Cause although the skin ("MeatLove Edition Caren") is featured, it goes back step by step in the listing.

Could anybody please be so kind to tell me 'bout?

chrismale · 27th March 2003, 09:28

or is there just something wrong with the date? 'cause skins seem to become "featured" before they've been published?

binary hero · 27th March 2003, 10:19

a featured skin is one that we think looks Damn Nice, and we think every winamp should have...so we put it on the front page of http://classic.winamp.com/skins so it can have a brief sight of immortality for a month.

[edit]the skins page hasn't been updated yet. give them a minute. nice skin though.

[edit2]"completness" is seen as "functionality" by the reviewers.

4th March 2003, 14:44	#1
Coolaas Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 25	How a skin becomes Featured? Hello buddies, I wana publish a skin and I wana know what couses a skin to be a "featured" one? should I do anything special or just Winamp stuffs decide about it? If I wana be honest I have done this skin for my gf :-) and I wana it be featured. Thanks

4th March 2003, 15:16	#2
Atmo The Freak (Forum King) Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 9,400	There is no way to guarentee a skin will be featured, (short of paying for the privelidge, or sleeping with the guy that chooses which skins get featured, and even then it'd better be a decent skin). However, there are a few ways to increase the chance of it being featured. 1. Do something original. Fairly self explanitory, if your skin looks like 50 others on the site then chances are it's not gonna even gonna get nominated for a feature. Doesnt mean you cant make a metallic looking skin, but if you do it'd better have something that makes it stand out. 2. Make sure its functional and complete. Again fairly self explanitory, if all the windows arent skinned (wa2) or theres components missing (wa3) and they dont flow well together its not gonna get featured. For wa2: If you skin any 3rd pary plugins you wont get any more points for completeness (but we may mention it in the review), and skinned cursors count for +/-0.5 points in asthetics. 3. Make it look good. Not all skins that get featured are made by photoshop genius', but they are all pleasing to the eye. So really, what we're looking for is a skin that jumps out and says "im special". Go do a search for "featured" at the site and you'll have a fair idea of the type of skins we're looking for. You've probably got a better chance of getting a featured skin if its for winamp3. Its simple numbers, there's nowhere near as many winamp3 skins as there are winamp 2 skins, so mathmatically you have a better chance...But it still has to be a good skin. :Psykotech:

4th March 2003, 21:38	#6
skinme! Forum King Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: 127.0.0.1 Website: skinme.net Posts: 3,352	Just attach it to a post? If it's too big use a different file format and make sure you don't have your whole desktop - just Winamp. He had decided to live forever, or die in the attempt In America - a must see film

5th March 2003, 18:17	#11
skinme! Forum King Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: 127.0.0.1 Website: skinme.net Posts: 3,352	MJ just wants to oggle at yer bird. Don't let him. Dirty man. He had decided to live forever, or die in the attempt In America - a must see film

6th March 2003, 19:58	#27
Cleanup The WWYD Jerk (Forum King) Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Shanghai Posts: 2,385	I like the bevels on it, but yeah, I agree with Krynis. It doesn't have that WOWOWOWOWOWOW. Erm. Yes. cleanup.myspace \ cleanup.devart \ cleanup.lastfm the what do you do? game thread! play for fun, posts don't count toward your postcount.

4th March 2003, 15:17	#3
Mr Jones Nothing to say... Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK Posts: 23,098	Moved from GD Moved to WA2 skins How does it get featured? An independant person from outside of Nullsoft/Winamp.com picks all the featured skins, this is increasingly done on the recommendation of the winamp reviewers. We pick skins that make us go WOWOWOW, suggest them to him, if he agrees they get featured, he's free to pick his own as well however, and often does. What does a skin need to be featured? It has to really stand out from the crowd, be well made, be unique, catch a reviwers eye and generally stand out from the crowd. Failing that, bribe a reviewer I'm open to sexual favours, money, llama porn or a combination of all three. Why don't you post a pic or something of your skin in here and lets us see.

4th March 2003, 15:22	#4
binary hero Banned Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 7,004	money and beer can help the process, as mr jones says. arrange for the transfer to any skin reviewer, and it will be shared with the featured skins chooser bloke, and your skin will be featured.

4th March 2003, 21:02	#5
Coolaas Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 25	Thanks buddies! I wana send the screenshot please provide me an e-mail address. I can't do it here :-)

5th March 2003, 12:42	#7
Coolaas Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 25	Sorry for the late reply I was in my university. as some reasons I don't wan't a public knowledge that what skin was this thread about :-D so I will be too thankful if one of masters let me post the screenshot as a private message for him. I know I am making it funny! but please help me as it is really important to me, THANKS THANKS AND THANKS again

5th March 2003, 12:46	#8
binary hero Banned Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 7,004	if it will make you feel better, you can email it to binarhero(at)madadafish(dot)com

5th March 2003, 15:33	#9
Coolaas Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 25	I appereciate. I sent the mail with the screenshot attached.

5th March 2003, 17:03	#10
Mr Jones Nothing to say... Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK Posts: 23,098	I still think you should attach it here, in fact I insist....

6th March 2003, 04:25	#12
Coolaas Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 25	Did you get my mail buddies? ummm let me know :-)

6th March 2003, 10:39	#13
Mr Jones Nothing to say... Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK Posts: 23,098	I suspect as BH hasn't posted the screen cap in here yet, that one of the following scenarios has happend.... 1)The skin is a lovely pic of said girl, mutilated thru a skin making proggy, causing BH to spontaneously combust. 2)He's gone off on safari to see if he can bag the babe for himself. 3)It was such a "wowowowow" kind of skin thats he's too busy shaking hands with madame palm and her five lovely daughters to post the screen cap. 4)Something else..... Which one will be right, tune in later folks to find out !

6th March 2003, 10:42	#14
binary hero Banned Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 7,004	or he is at college and doesn't have access to his email. there isn't a website that will let me log into a pop3 account is there?

6th March 2003, 10:51	#15
Mr Jones Nothing to say... Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK Posts: 23,098	Sorry LOL, forgot people still go to school during the day No outlook on your machine?, most IT people will just install MS office suite with every crappy prog it comes with, outlook included... Come to think of it, is that the right mailbox details for you up there? madadafish.com brings back a domain not found result madasafish.com however brings back an ISP... and whose binarhero? Failing that you can send a copy here. iblowgoats@jones-town.co.uk

6th March 2003, 11:03	#18
binary hero Banned Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 7,004	bah, it is madasafish.com stupid keyboards.

6th March 2003, 11:12	#19
Mr Jones Nothing to say... Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK Posts: 23,098	A poor workman always blames his tools

6th March 2003, 11:16	#20
binary hero Banned Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 7,004	i never made any references to myself being good in the first place

6th March 2003, 12:13	#21
Coolaas Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 25	oh my god! lemme get in the game too!!! buddies would u like me to send it to iblowgoats@jones-town.co.uk ? or Dear BinaryHero got the image successfully up to now? Please hurry! I need my masterpiece ( ) online sooner. Thank you

6th March 2003, 12:36	#22
Mr Jones Nothing to say... Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK Posts: 23,098	You can send it there, or you can not bother, either way you could have saved us two days of posting around if you'd simply attached the thing in the first place. Up to you, the mail box I posted there will expire in one hour from me posting this message, send now or forever hold your silence.

6th March 2003, 12:58	#23
Coolaas Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 25	oo ok! I apologize for that. yes I know I took lots of time for this. I am sending the mail now a quarter after MJ post. I apologize again this is about end of our story!

6th March 2003, 14:10	#25
Coolaas Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 25	hehe! o my dear friend I COULD! but as I said I didn't want it happen for public view in this thread !!! but no matter anyway, I REALLY appreciate your note & thank you. now tell me if I was wrong about its qualification for being featured

6th March 2003, 18:58	#26
Krynis Major Dude Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Canada B.C. Posts: 666 Posts: 771	i like it but i dont think it would get featured

7th March 2003, 03:07	#28
Coolaas Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 25	mmm ok friends, although a lot of time has baan spent using 3ds max, and photoshop to make it stand out, I don complain. maybe it is not really special, perhaps it is not as good as those that have been featured up to now. I wanted to make someone happy seems that it is impossible. may I know BinaryHero and MJ idea too? there is really no hope ?

7th March 2003, 08:47	#29
binary hero Banned Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 7,004	as we said so many posts ago, money could get this featured. but on it's own it's all been done already - keep working, you'll get better.

7th March 2003, 08:56	#30
Mr Jones Nothing to say... Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK Posts: 23,098	It's good, certainly better than a lot of skins that make it to the database, but , well it just dosn't jump off the page at me and scream "feature my you bitch, feature me" Keep trying though, you obviously have the talent.

7th March 2003, 11:40	#31
Jellby Major Dude Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Somewhere under the rainbow Posts: 1,702	Many of us have never had a featured skin... and we don't actually mind, we skin for ourselves and whoever likes our work. A featured skin is nice, but not needed at all P.S. When I started, I too wanted my first skin to be featured, and I didn't understand why it wasn't... Now I still don't understand why some skins are featured and none of mine are, but as I said, I don't mind Many who live deserve death, some who die deserve life - can you give it to them? Then be not so quick to deal out death in judgement.

7th March 2003, 12:00	#32
Coolaas Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 25	Ok! Thanks for your advises grandpapas!!!! :-D with no jock I Thank all of you for knowing this important and posting for me. I hope at least my skin gets published sooner as I have uploaded it a while ago and still it is not published on winamp.com It is my final post at this thread. my last request: please delete the whole thread from database Thanks Thanks & thanks for anything.

7th March 2003, 12:03	#33
binary hero Banned Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 7,004	you can't delete this thread! it's wonderful! and i'm sure someone will get round to reviewing it soon enough (though last night i did get two "sorry, no components found", then it just started showing me skins i had just reviewed. crazy database).

27th March 2003, 09:21	#34
chrismale Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 2	Hi and Hello! Well, my skin seems to be (one of) the featured skin(s) of today. Now, what does this mean? 'Cause "featured skin" only displays in the Author's Comment Field? Is this kind of featuring different from being displayed on the mainsite? 'Cause although the skin ("MeatLove Edition Caren") is featured, it goes back step by step in the listing. Could anybody please be so kind to tell me 'bout?

27th March 2003, 09:28	#35
chrismale Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 2	or is there just something wrong with the date? 'cause skins seem to become "featured" before they've been published?

27th March 2003, 10:19	#36
binary hero Banned Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 7,004	a featured skin is one that we think looks Damn Nice, and we think every winamp should have...so we put it on the front page of http://classic.winamp.com/skins so it can have a brief sight of immortality for a month. [edit]the skins page hasn't been updated yet. give them a minute. nice skin though. [edit2]"completness" is seen as "functionality" by the reviewers.

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