Think i'm obessessed with skins, lol. Anyway...this is just gonna be my fubar diary for now.
I've done updates to most of my skins: Added effects and features to them and removed or replaced stuff i wasn't keen on. Also learning how to fit images better to the page itself so attempting to do that.
I started learning how to do them about a month ago, and just by doing a couple of days each week i'm learning quite a bit of stuff. Nothing that advanced yet but i'm hoping i can get really good at learning CSS because i'm enjoying doing the simpler stuff. and finding it (mostly) fun working out where i have gone wrong and what this site let's you do. I've said it before but this template on here is great to use and CSS seems fairly nice language.
Going to finish working on the rest and then start making new ones with the flashy gifs i've got ready and waiting. I do make bright and over the top skins but that's what i enjoy making. There are a few calmer skins in there too, the fan/tribute type, and i shall be making some more of those too. Feel free to recommend anything you'd like me to make that nobody else has done yet, i may or may not make it.
Might make a blog on how to make your own skins. There are some good, and really helpful, blogs already on here but i didn't find any that went into everything you can do, and there is a lot.
And of course i'm gonna try to rtf the favour in between doing all that. :)
Skins i have made so far;
A lot of rainbow ones using gradients, gifs, or both.
A few gaming ones, Rez, Mortal Kombat, and Terranigma so far. Rez needs a little improvement.
Matrix and keanu reeves ones, the matrix one is better gonna try and work out how to improve the keanu one when i can.
A couple of monochrome ones, and Metropolis is quite ochre and not flashy.