A few notable changes with this week's release:
1. We've moved the profile banner editor into the Skin Editor. Now, all of the data contained in a Skin is "under one roof." This step was necessary to prepare for the next step in the evolution of our Skin feature: The ability for users to have multiple skins. It will be possible to preview and edit skins that you aren't using as your current skin. That step will, in turn, allow us to manage a library of user-contributed (and some Eons-contributed) skins - free for the grabbing.
2. Preview mode. The Preview button lets you view the changes you've made to a Skin without saving the skin. Use this if you're just playing or are unsure whether or not you want to keep the changes you've made. Visitors to your profile will continue to see your last saved Skin.
3. New banner options. Note that the banner editor has changed quite a bit. Most importantly, there are a few new options: Repeat, Position, Color Mode and Color (these will probably be familiar to veteran Skinners). Repeat controls the "tiling" of images that are smaller than the banner's 974x100 dimensions. If you choose "no-repeat", for example, the image will not be tiled. Position controls how the image is placed within the banner. If the image does not fill the banner - or if the image contains transparent portions, we now support a colored (opaque) background as well as the default transparent background.
Awesome! Thank you for all the hard work!
posted by Sylk
about 1 year ago
Unbelieveable work!!! Now we've got to change a lot of help stuff.
John
Awesome additions, the preview option is great.....thank you for working so hard to make it easier for us...
WOW! Things are getting so easy...Thanks!
