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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Firefox Zune


I haven't posted an update on here for a while but my newest theme comes at a request for a black/orange theme to match the newest Windows XP Zune theme. I combined some of the features of Abstract Classic and Aquatint Black to create this theme. It still has a little work but should be functional. If you are interested in it, check it out and please give feedback so I can get it released on the Firefox Add-ons page.

You can download it here and install it manually or get it from the Sandbox at the Firefox themes page.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Aquabird Black is Ready

You can download my Aquabird Black theme for Thunderbird here and install or get it from the Thunderbird Add-Ons page now. There are a couple minor issues with text color for junk message notification and things like that but overall, the theme is ready. Enjoy.

I also updated my Aquatint Black theme so the text issues with that one should be fixed also.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Tutorial for Creating Your Own Firefox Themes

For all of you who have expressed an interest in working with Firefox themes, I put together a .pdf file on how to create or customize your own Firefox theme. I am sure there are some things to be added which I will as I get feedback but I believe it covers all of the necessary components in better detail that what I have seen available so far.

You can download the file from the top of my links column on the right.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Creating Your Own Themes

With the lack of good tutorials on creating your own Firefox Themes, I am thinking of putting a detailed guide together. If you are interested, could you please take a moment to fill out a brief survey to give me some feedback. Click on the link below to go to the survey.

Click Here to take survey

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Aquatint Black

I have made a dark theme using the Aquatint icon set. You can down load it from the previous link or go to the Sandbox area of the firefox add-ons page. I would really appreciate it if you could leave feedback in the Sandbox in order to help me get it approved for public down load. There are a couple of small issues with this theme right now but overall it works just fine. The problems are mainly text color issues that I need to locate and fine tune. Please leave feedback, especially suggestions on how to improve it.

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Bible Fox Updated

I have updated my Bible Fox, Bible Fox Blue, and my Bible Fox Ubuntu Christian Edition. They are essentially the same theme now. The only difference between the two is the size of the font in the top menu bar. Bible Fox UCE appears better when using Linux while menu bar fonts in Bible Fox are more difficult to read.

Monday, June 4, 2007

I Need Help

If any of you who visit this site would like to help me out I would greatly appreciate it. I need reviews for my Aquatint and Aquabird themes in the Firefox Sandbox before they will release it to public. I don't know why they are being so difficult with these themes since they are tested and will be well reviewed by those who used Aquatint in the past. This has never been an issue for any of my previous themes.

I need anyone willing to help to go to Firefox and look up my themes in Sandbox for both firefox and thunderbird themes and write "technical" reviews for them. Basically, report that they look nice and work well. To get to the sandbox, log in to your account. When you go to the add-ons page it should say public/sandbox next to the search window near the top of the screen. If it doesn't, click on "my account" next to "log in" to the right of the search box. In that menu you need to make sure that that "make sandbox visible" option is selected then go back to the add-ons page.

Thanks for all of your help.