New Official Skin News

you like?

  • Yes, No question about it!

    Votes: 16 61.5%

  • NO, i never want to see this skin in the release

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Yes, but it still needs quite abit of work

    Votes: 5 19.2%

  • Going to wait for some more work to be done on it...

    Votes: 6 23.1%
  • Total voters
    26
I like it as well. My ability to use it will be based on whether or not there's a help site for it.

As I wrote before in another thread, I don't mind doing a help site, but I need some help.

And so far I haven't had any offers <frown>.

And...

If I may be so bold as to ask... can we get a version of it with slightly muted colors?

No? I thought not.

:)

Jeff
 
One word: WOW!

I like this skin a lot. Icons are nice and very much what I envisioned.

Looking for any beta testers? ;)
 
thanks for all the great feedback guys!

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Muted Colours:
i guess i could

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Beta testers:
Sorry, no we have about 100 clients on this skin

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Optimised Images:
yep, i know i REALY need to do this

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Site-Helper.Com
Also going to be redone by us and DA.. kinda needs to be considering this is going to be the default skin...

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"Also is there going to be a power user skin with the same kind of layout and colour scheme?"
eh?
 
SpinnaHost-Mark said:
Site-Helper.Com
Also going to be redone by us and DA.. kinda needs to be considering this is going to be the default skin...
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Now you've brought up another minor problem....

Those of us who've started with the current skin may very well want to stick with it, at least on the systems we've got installed with it already. So is DA going to maintain two versions of Site-Helper.com?

I'd hope so.

Jeff
 
i believe that the current skin wont be around... and if it is, it will be a option thing, not the default.

DirectSkin is going to be the new default skin, hence sitehelper will be directed towards that, sooooo im not sure whats happening in regards to that. i know if it was me, i wouldnt want to look after 2 sites where one is for a redundant skin.

john or mark please correct me if i am wrong
 
Mark, I don't know how many customers you've got on DA (I currently have none but I'm starting to move clients today).

Frankly the support issues involved in changing a skin are great. In fact, more than great. I don't know if you've ever managed supports for hundreds of sites; I have.

I'd actually wait for the new skin before moving any clients if I could, but I can't my Plesk Gold Partner license expires in September and I've decided to not renew it.

Depending on how many clients I've got moved by the time the new skin comes out I'm not sure I'd ever want to switch them, even if it meant maintaining my own copy of Site-Helper (which I'm working on now).

Jeff
 
i can give you the whole site helper tar file if you want, you can use it freely if you have a DA liscense.

We moved about 150 domains over to the new skin, and only about 20 people said anything, all positive. Some of these users are a little "hosting illerate" and they were very pleased that it made things easier to navigate.

The whole user section is working (other than graphs), now also the reseller section. Im still working on the admin section.. it has some of the old icons mixed in with new, but is fully functional.

If you would like a tar of the skin, i will be putting it up as well as the ai files, psd's, etc when i get source forge project verification today. So you can, if you want, move clients directly onto the new skin. I also have a dutch version of the skin :P
 
SpinnaHost-Mark said:
i can give you the whole site helper tar file if you want, you can use it freely if you have a DA liscense.
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Only two licenses as of today, but growing :) . I'm not even hosting yet and already have two licenses.
We moved about 150 domains over to the new skin, and only about 20 people said anything, all positive. Some of these users are a little "hosting illerate" and they were very pleased that it made things easier to navigate.
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Pretty much all of our hosting clients are hosting illiterate; we bought a small local ISP years ago and ended up with people who don't know anything. It's gotten so bad I had to learn Front Page :( . And I don't go after new hosting clients as often as I should because most of our business is in supporting other ISPs and hosting companies. But that will change now with DA.
The whole user section is working (other than graphs), now also the reseller section. Im still working on the admin section.. it has some of the old icons mixed in with new, but is fully functional.
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By graphs do you mean webalizer or something else?
If you would like a tar of the skin, i will be putting it up as well as the ai files, psd's, etc when i get source forge project verification today. So you can, if you want, move clients directly onto the new skin.
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Yes, please let us know when you've got that done, hopefully by a short note here.
I also have a dutch version of the skin :P
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Now that would cause me a lot of support calls :) .

Thanks for all your help to the community! And please don't take any of my comments as being negative against your efforts; I don't mean them that way. However, I've been hosting since '95 (definitely one of the first hosting companies in the U.S. if not the first, Linux Kernel version 0.99, one IP# and one domain name on the box, 10 megabytes for us$30/month) so my comments are usually based on years of experience.

Jeff
 
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cbf quoting and deleting stuff, so im just gonna quote it my way!

"By graphs do you mean webalizer or something else?"
- login to the control panel (player graph details on page 1) look up the top :D

"Yes, please let us know when you've got that done, hopefully by a short note here."
- sourceforge dont work on the weekend.. so this will be put back to monday

"Now that would cause me a lot of support calls ."
- how so?
 
SpinnaHost-Mark said:
"Now that would cause me a lot of support calls ."
- how so?
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Did you note my smiley? While some of my clients speak German, I don't believe any of them speak Dutch :) .

Jeff
 
SpinnaHost-Mark said:
heh, sorry i didnt see the smiley :P

did you see what i mean about the graphs?
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I haven't had time to look yet; I'm leaving in a minute for a LUG group here in the Southern California desert.

But do you mean graphs on the standard install or on the new skin?

I'll have a look when I get back.

Jeff
 
A stupid question, but when is this skin availibe?
I like to use it for my customers!
 
Yes... you said it would be posted Monday but nothing yet, you still going to post a location to get it from?

Thank you very much in advance :)
 
This is a forum of hosting providers so if you really need bandwidth, i'm sure one of us can provide it :)
 
Let me know what you need in the way of resources, and your expected bandwidth drain, and I'll either provide something or try to get someone else to.

Jeff
 
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