Opera Styles ~ hidden beauty
By Ivan Minic. Wednesday, 25. January 2006, 12:44:21
I've been thinking latetly very much about this... Fred mentioned here that he is working on few new skins, and as we all saw yesterday one is unleashed... and it is a piece of art!
But...
You all remember that some time ago I wrote that tutorial about tweaking and editing your user css settings... made some graphics too... and so on...
Well many people liked it very much, it really got some publicity both from my opera staff and from users...
And that is all nice
But...
There is a very problematic matter...
There are just 7 skins of which 4 are blue...
I stated this already, few times before, but now I'm writing more seriously about this...
We have few things here to discuss..
1. We have 39 forums + 6 as a part of The Longue. That forum is a part of this community, yet there is not a single forum about Opera community, we only have Site Feedback and Suggestions but that one is used for all sort of things and not only for my.opera.com, but also for opera.com , portal.opera.com and so on...
2. There is The Style Council group... and it is run by very skilled people, and also has a very nice number of users... but.. it is pretty much dead...
3. There is currently no way for a member to contribute skins or ideas or css hacks and tutorials that would be enough public and enough spolighted..
What I suggest:
1. As said many times before... Make some serious discussions about my.opera.. my idea would be to split current forums and make some new ones... Move it on top of Opera Browser for Desktop category. This is the list of forums I would make.
The Opera Community
Opera community really needs an offical place where people can discuss features they have there, and an official place for styles related discussions...
We need official The Style Council, maybe run by the same people (R-E-S-P-E-C-T), but still we need a place that would be available to anyone... It would be much more live and much more serious than it currently is.. people would share styles, contribut stuff and make that current number of ready to use styles (that is very problematic in comparison to other blog services) grow very fast..
With reorganized forum people would have much more chance to discuss things related to Opera community, also would help developers track bug reports and wishes much easier...
It would really be nice to make it possible for people to share their styles and help others design their pages or personalize them a bit... things already done to help this happen (like Jere's or mine tutorial) got very good feedback from public, but in both cases people can't discuss them, or share their views on that matter.. or if they make something good sher it with everyone, maybe even get their style among ones that are currently there for everyone to select and use
My.Opera team has a lot of things to do each day.. but not everything must be done by them
Make it possible for us other to make something for everyone
But...
You all remember that some time ago I wrote that tutorial about tweaking and editing your user css settings... made some graphics too... and so on...
Well many people liked it very much, it really got some publicity both from my opera staff and from users...
And that is all nice
But...
There is a very problematic matter...
There are just 7 skins of which 4 are blue...
I stated this already, few times before, but now I'm writing more seriously about this...
We have few things here to discuss..
1. We have 39 forums + 6 as a part of The Longue. That forum is a part of this community, yet there is not a single forum about Opera community, we only have Site Feedback and Suggestions but that one is used for all sort of things and not only for my.opera.com, but also for opera.com , portal.opera.com and so on...
2. There is The Style Council group... and it is run by very skilled people, and also has a very nice number of users... but.. it is pretty much dead...
3. There is currently no way for a member to contribute skins or ideas or css hacks and tutorials that would be enough public and enough spolighted..
What I suggest:
1. As said many times before... Make some serious discussions about my.opera.. my idea would be to split current forums and make some new ones... Move it on top of Opera Browser for Desktop category. This is the list of forums I would make.
The Opera Community
- Announcements and General Information
- Frequently Asked Questions
-
Site Feedback and SuggestionsMy.Opera Wish-list
- My.Opera Help
- Styling your pages
- My.Opera bug reports
Opera community really needs an offical place where people can discuss features they have there, and an official place for styles related discussions...
We need official The Style Council, maybe run by the same people (R-E-S-P-E-C-T), but still we need a place that would be available to anyone... It would be much more live and much more serious than it currently is.. people would share styles, contribut stuff and make that current number of ready to use styles (that is very problematic in comparison to other blog services) grow very fast..
With reorganized forum people would have much more chance to discuss things related to Opera community, also would help developers track bug reports and wishes much easier...
It would really be nice to make it possible for people to share their styles and help others design their pages or personalize them a bit... things already done to help this happen (like Jere's or mine tutorial) got very good feedback from public, but in both cases people can't discuss them, or share their views on that matter.. or if they make something good sher it with everyone, maybe even get their style among ones that are currently there for everyone to select and use
My.Opera team has a lot of things to do each day.. but not everything must be done by them
Make it possible for us other to make something for everyone
WIDGETIZE
jonimueller # 25. January 2006, 22:28
Just my "two cents"!
magic_mania # 27. January 2006, 05:42
pixelberries # 5. February 2006, 22:04
use Yahoo groups, are here to test things out, and we are literally fumbling in the blind, here. We don't know how to do anything! But we are sooo tired of Yahell, and we like what we see here so far...
A well organized area with get started/how to and good Faq sections is what we need. And most of us are into graphics and very much like to be able to customize. I'm fairly new to Opera browser, as well, and wild horses couldn't drag me back to IE!
Hope to see this realized!