Shoutbox

Well people today is a day of excitement as I have created a stable version of possibly the greatest and most complete WLM skin that has ever been seen.

As most of you know me and Stian have teamed up to bring you the update to Vista Live Messenger, which is coming its solid and it just needs a few things done to it and it will be done

But lets go back a bit, nearly 2 years ago I started creating a skin called AeroMSN. Finding skinning hard I teamed up with iPab and we brought you guys one of the best themes for MSN Messenger 7.5. Windows Live Messenger was released and we laid down plans to create AeroWLM, we found the name to be crap so we called the project WAM (Windows Aero Messenger).

About a year ago I released a screenshot of a very early version of WAM. For those who can't remember it was this:



The skin was meant to be a major release for 8.0. But the ideas were really complex and I couldn't bear the load of university at the time. So WAM died and I took a break from the skinning world and came back to bring you guys Ev0 and now VLM.

To this very day I get told "man you should have made WAM I was so looking forward to it".

So I thought enough is enough.





These are the first two working (yes working) screenshots of Windows Aero Messenger Reloaded. THIS IS ON WLM 8.1.

The skin features what WAM would have been and much more. I created this skin using different methods than what I'm normally used to. It has really controlled colorization where colorization actually helps the skin work better and does not make glow or glass effects look crappy. As shown in the screenshots, just set the color to whatever your main desktop color is and use a bit of plus transparency and PRESTO you have a cool glass-ish effect. Or you can maximize the chat window and use it with a wallpaper in a dual screen situation (which is why the bar is at the bottom )

It also features a new style DP container in the chat window. The bottom part of the container is now a stylish button instead of a button within a border. So when you hover over it, it glows nicely.

Pretty much every aspect of messenger has been refined and styled here. WAM also features an emoticon patch which was an intended feature for Ev0, but never surfaced. Every single emoticon has been modernized and stylized to be smooth and effective (no more white edges )

That's all on WAM Reloaded.....

For Now.

No ETA on this good things come to those who wait.