Customization Tutorials.

I've been customizing the Windows GUI for years now, and from time to time I've written a helpful tutorial. I've decided to go ahead and create a 12 article series on completely reworking the WinXP GUI (the name of the articles will be "Breaking the GUI"). At the moment I'm not certain what outlet I will use to distribute the series (Aqua-Soft, another forum, a specific site or some other medium). I want to know from some of my fellow experts here what you think a good progressive order would be for the different aspects of customization?

Obviously, in the first article I want to touch on simple mods for beginners and move towards a more complex approach with each article. The idea is that grandma could pick up the series from article #1 and by the last article be a complete GUI master. Items I will cover include themes, icons, skins, reg hacks, third party software, OS emulation and transparency. Any ideas will be helpful.

Please understand that the article will not focus on OSX on WinXP. Aqua-Soft handles that need just nicely. This will be a summary of almost every tweak and GUI mod I've learned over the past 6-7 years.

#32602

great idea...

it would hopefully help out ****ies and spare everyone else being asked the same question 10 times... good on ya.

I think the most important is a good tutorial on how to achieve visual styles. I've already made one if you need that.

fissy

#32603

I can't wait, thanks alot deadzombie !!!

FatAxl :own:

#32605

Can I make a suggestion? Don't make it too "****ie friendly". I mean, its ok to assume they know nothing about GUI customization, but dont spend your time explaining what an icon is, or something like that. Ive seen too many great tutorials that spend too much time with the uber-basics. Assume they are intermediate windows users, because if they are too inexperienced, they may break something anyway.

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