For those wondering: Skinnalicious is temporarily off line. Our host is suffering major problems with the server resulting in all domains unreachable, including their own. We hope (and trust) they will fix things as soon as possible so keep trying once in a while.
Meanwhile pinchecl is worth while though dedicated to photography.... 

We've had several complaints about the slow and frequent bad connection to Skinnalicious. We therefore are very happy to announce we are now on a new and very fast server and connections should now be made flawless and smoothly. Another step towards an even better and user friendly community. Just see for yourself at http://www.skinnalicious.net

Yep! Passed the magical number of 1,000,000 downloads! Due to work and my own site at http://www.skinnalicious.net I'm not as active as I used to be anymore, or better, hardly active anymore and still the number has grown to 1,000,000. So I want to thank all those that made that happen!!

Well, after playing and testing WB5 I decided to go back to the good old WB4 again. Why? Well, got a minute? (I'm using the latest version of both WB5 and SS)
First of all, no doubt WB5 has great potential. The Per pixel option gives good possibilities and the effects that can be accomplished with that are awesome. So why the rollback then? (Mind you, all things mentioned here are just "bugs" and shortcomings I have on my machine and they not necessarily have to be a common WB5 problem!)
Simply, the goods are not enough to forget the bads. Too much "errors" to create the themes I want. Each of them no big deal if isolated.
- Like the text background, a wonderfull option in WB4. Not available in WB5.
- I'm a fan of creating a menubar I like. In WB5 the menubar can only be modified by adjusting a color.
- The Per pixel effect has another strange result at my system. I'm working on a theme with a glass frame of about 10 pixels. When a window is maximized, the glass part disappears and will only be visible when downsizing the window!
- Call me dumb but try to add a Rollup button in WB5 on the perpixel layer.......And having written this I discover the way it can be done...finally
- Skinstudio can't handle the testing and applying anymore. You have to start WB to test or apply a skin. No big deal, I know, but it's just another "irritating" point.
All in all, I'm still enthusiastic about the whole thing but for now it just keeps me from creating the theme(s) I want instead of giving more posibilities. I sure will test new versions but until then I'll keep on creating wb4's. Just my 2c's

I'm running WB 4.90g[b].003 and just discovered that the Titlebar Text background is again not supported. Do I miss something or.....? Happened once before with an older version (don't remember which but definitely a wb5) after which an update corrected that so

To be abled to create a wb5 skin I of course installed the 4.9xx SS. I always use a previous skin as a base to start a new one. However, in this SS version I do miss the "Save as.." possibility, an easy way to create a new name with the "old" skin. Is this a temp thing or....?

In the previous version (4.60) of SS there is the posiibility to create a titlebar textbackground which is, IMO, a nice feature. In the latest version 4.90 the image still can be added but it won't show anymore. Even the WBA's created with the 4.60 don't show that image anymore. Using WB 4.90. Is that a SS or a WB "error"? Anyone has an answer to that?

As some of you already noticed I took the step and started my own site. As of now all of my work of course will be available there. Of course a part of it will be posted here too. But it's not just my work you'll find at my site. Already a couple of artists have submitted theirs too..... So if you feel like it, pay a visit and have a look: you are more then welcome at Link

Somehow the last few days I get comments in a way I don't really like. Of course people may like or dislike my submissions but I expect a little respect from both. Now check this out. I think this isn't a way to comment! http://pinchecl.wincustomize.com/viewskin.aspx?SID=4398&skinid=18112&libid=8&comments=1&UID=72493

came along this one http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/body?wb_url=https://www.wincustomize.com%2F&wb_lp=ENJA&wb_dis=3 . Looks like a translated(or dual language) wc to me...
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