Shoutbox

So here it is ladies and gentlemen.

The skin to ring in my return to scene. I'd like to introduce you to Pulse. It's something I came up with to get on board the whole scene where typography and clean graphics are the way to go.

Pulse features a few new features that I haven't ever used in skins before. The first being restoring the old Messenger 8.1 feature that had 16x16 display pictures in the compact contact list.

And the second being the super compact alert design which I showed off a bit yesterday.

Anyway here is the release screenshot for good measure.



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Now onto the business of future skins. For now the skins I will be making will be for Messenger 2009 only. Messenger 2011 has been on my mind and I have looked into it, but its not something that I will be working with until later on in the year.

As I mentioned earlier I will be opening the floor for people to apply as official testers for my skins. Basically I'll get maybe 5 or 6 people who will be super important and be able to see what I am working on and will be able to bounce ideas off. People who have good design skills will get higher priority.

The other thing is that testers must be active on these forums to answer questions and stuff people may have about using skins in general. I would also ask that they check the Design Evolved Facebook page in case people ask for support there as well.

The reason I say this is because I have missed a lot in the past in terms of talking to people with all the other stuff I have going on.

So yeah if you have a interest in helping and not just having early access to my skins then just leave a message here. I have a pretty big idea for a future skin and I know that its something that will need some extensive testing.

I'll make up my mind on who gets to become testers later on. For now enjoy the release.

Wow stunning!

Amazing my friend! Awesome as always!

I thought it looked a bit too standard at first, but having time to look it over at work, I love the simple text "activities" menu in the chat windows as well as the DP/status image. I really like the colours surrounding the text area and the bevel effect. Also the colourful "highlight" on the contact list is pretty outstanding.

I usually love skins, but can't stand to see them every day and revert to the classic look. I'd consider using this one permanently.

It's also great to hear your skinning again and it might breath a bit of life back into it

I like. But I'm using WLM 2011 right now

Amazing as always Willz.

Great skin.

However, there is no formatting in names within toasts..

Willz, you were not online when i spotted this, so im posting it


look at the typing message area, that image is distorted
dunno why

but its not a big deal

Edit:
*Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600)
Windows Live Messenger 14.0.0416
Messenger Plus! Live 4.85.0.386
Skin: Pulse 1.0.0

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Originally posted by blackjack
Willz, you were not online when i spotted this, so im posting it


look at the typing message area, that image is distorted
dunno why

but its not a big deal

Edit:
*Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600)
Windows Live Messenger 14.0.0416
Messenger Plus! Live 4.85.0.386
Skin: Pulse 1.0.0

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That would be the ad banner pushing stuff up. Strange, doesn't seem do to it on mine. But it's an easy fix nonetheless. In fact it's already fixed.

Nice skin. I'm downloading! A definite reason I'm staying with WLM 2009