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XSTACY.'s icon Author: XSTACY.
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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okay, i was listening to check yes juliet by we the kings. Anyway, this is my really tiny suggestion.

I think, just look at the SOTDs, i really think there's just too many simple skins. i mean, enough is enough. Where are all the huge design layouts. i know simple skins are easy to make, maybe i am not a really good person to be telling you this since i have my pullthetrigger account which i have stopped using, but this is a little too much.

We should get back to the rapemyskin, thatphobia, inksplash, magnette, kriss, heroine, shotgun, psychopoetry, manikka, robox, sfmy:D, animate_, evilsaints, (soldmysmile), TheAngryMob, eraseme, coram_deo, provocative, poised, luridslick, leblogskincritique, etc days.

Bottomline: stop simple, get big and loud. (layouts)

We always have waves of people joining blogskins, different generations doing big things, now it's all simple. maybe i am just a nobody, maybe i am just another user on blogskins.com, but really, it's quite disappointing to see people skinning simple when everyone can learn/ can do big and loud skins.

Maybe everyone can add this slogan in their skin's description
stop simple, get big and loud. (layouts)
and link to this thread and let this spread. i bet you are all tired of simple skins. there is already a lot and enough to satisfy everyone so now, big.

love, ht.

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Le.Romantique's icon Author: Le.Romantique
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  Hahaha :D
 
 
consp!re.affa!r's icon Author: consp!re.affa!r
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  We should move on. coz in every generation, there will be something different. Sooner, this will be over. :)
 
 
sfmy :D's icon Author: sfmy :D
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  hey huiting, i'm sure after the exams there'll be more people coming back, :)
 
 
XSTACY.'s icon Author: XSTACY.
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  and back to the days of le.romantique and consp!re.affair days who are still doing their thing and doing it good :p
 
 
Le.Romantique's icon Author: Le.Romantique
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  Hahaha I kind of agree, that's why I've stopped and let my other account die slowly. :x
 
 
rearrange's icon Author: rearrange
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  hi, hilary here.
personally, i appreciate this. your efforts to stop all these simple stuff that has been going viral throughout blogskins. i support it.
however, the problem here is, to everyone here, please stop using me as an example of this. the simple skins now are so much different from the ones i made last time in my lt account. the ones you see as sotd are not copies of disintegrate or roll the dice or whatever. they're just big text in arial and the entries below. the only difference is that they changed the colours. i put in effort into ensuring the variety in my simple skins last time. you don't see me putting up different versions of the same thing, right?
and, my style is not only simple and neat. i have another account swarmed with 40+ image skins, so yeah. it's not good for you guys to say that i started this, when in fact, it wasnt me who transformed blogskins into a place flooded with those types of skins i mentioned above.
 
 
XSTACY.'s icon Author: XSTACY.
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  i am sorry about that, i'll remove it. really sorry. :p
 
 
XSTACY.'s icon Author: XSTACY.
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  and i love your image skins then. just so you know. haa.
 
 
doughnutcrazy's icon Author: doughnutcrazy
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  Well, the prob is simple skins have been around for a very long time, just that it has been made noticed now. I don't think it's simply a trend. Just check out myles' skins ;)
Just that we should encourage people to make skins out of their imagination box, yup.
 
 
consp!re.affa!r's icon Author: consp!re.affa!r
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  yea. skinner like (...) needs some kick.
They just change the fonts/colors then submit it again.
If you study mine, you can see that every skin of mine is different hahaha
 
 
(KAIGE)'s icon Author: (KAIGE)
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  I support this! Big and loud skins are awesome because they last longer IMO. I'm more likely to stick with something that's detailed and flamboyant rather than a skin that's simple. :)
 
 
consp!re.affa!r's icon Author: consp!re.affa!r
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  kind of hurt my little feeling. I did loud skins too, after Xav. did hers. Well, I have stopped. :D
 
 
Le.Romantique's icon Author: Le.Romantique
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  I've been wanting to ask this for very long.
What's IMO? LOL sorry I r noobsxz. : (

Yeah my style varies too, pretty much. :/
 
 
%BLUE.pink-'s icon Author: %BLUE.pink-
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  - nods furiously in agreement -
 
 
XSTACY.'s icon Author: XSTACY.
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  in my opinion :D
 
 
%BLUE.pink-'s icon Author: %BLUE.pink-
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  im like going against myself. my lastest simple skin got SOTD. =X
- shakes head in disappointment -
 
 
♥BONBON:D's icon Author: ♥BONBON:D
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  hur, i agree:)
 
 
ammunition/'s icon Author: ammunition/
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  :X hm i'm more comfortable with just CSS and HTML though, i mean, simple skins when done properly have their appeal too. And i'm referring to good ones, like maybe from kissandtell, pullthetrigger etc. Just stating my preference though :D
 
 
Le.Romantique's icon Author: Le.Romantique
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  Hahaha.
Come come I shall self-plug, go rate mine! LOL.

But yeah sometimes it's difficult to find nice images that suits your style. :/
 
 
thatphobia's icon Author: thatphobia
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  thanks for having my name up there :)
in any case, i've given up on skinning.
my main priority is studies, and music.

at least in the meantime.
so people, stop simple, get big and loud. (layouts).

~
 
 
inkSPLASH's icon Author: inkSPLASH
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  stop simple, get big and loud.

*waves hand* agree!
 
 
Xavqior's icon Author: Xavqior
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  That is a good proposal. Hopefully everyone starts coming up with more innovative skins instead of leeching on others' basecodes. And maybe by the time everyone starts coming up with image skins, a new trend with images will start over again. :)
 
 
midnight.run's icon Author: midnight.run
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  SO DAMN FREAKING AGREE MAN! :D
 
 
THEVERONICANOTE's icon Author: THEVERONICANOTE
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  Mmh, I think it depends on your definition of simple. I think right now you're referring to those.. CSS-based, livejournal type skins? If so, yes I support that people stop following that trend. Even though I like using those skins because they are more customisable, I still prefer looking at skins which have impressive images like those in the days of daylockheart and kukuthebird, which most skins nowadays don't. And one of the good thing about images it's harder to follow trends cos everyone have different way of making images.
 
 
KILLTHEWORST's icon Author: KILLTHEWORST
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  "We should get back to the rapemyskin, thatphobia, inksplash, magnette, kriss, heroine, shotgun, psychopoetry, manikka, robox, sfmy, animate_, evilsaints, (soldmysmile), TheAngryMob, eraseme, coram_deo, provocative, poised, luridslick, leblogskincritique, etc days. "

Well some of them, in fact, most of them have disappeared.
We have new skinners now and new ideas are coming in to blogskins.com.
And yes, I do agree that blogskinners should bring back the olden days. =]

In my opinion, a skinner can create simple skins but also skins of other types, such as the ones with collages, hand drawn, photographs and so on. That makes a skinner an ideal skinner. He/she is able to explore art through blog. =]

But, it is useless to bring up the SOTD subject because nothing can be done.
SOTD is a system based on votes. Votes, meaning, number of favourites.
Okay, maybe not useless because hopefully, people's mind will be changed.
But, if these people are new, there is a high chance that they may not know what the 'olden' days are. Majority, i believe, is new.

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erupted-kisses♥'s icon Author: erupted-kisses♥
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  I love huge design too/
 
 
lix2004's icon Author: lix2004
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  i support the big and loud campaign XD
 
 
♥ooh-'s icon Author: ♥ooh-
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  simple simple simple simple simple simple simple simple simple
simple simple simple simple simple simple simple simple simple
simple simple simple BOLD simple simple simple simple simple
simple simple simple simple simple simple simple simple simple
simple simple simple simple simple simple simple simple simple

stand out.

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XSTACY.'s icon Author: XSTACY.
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  my point is not about sotd though. more of, people try to go into the big and loud area, because there is enough ljstyle layouts.

and im not saying that everyone should stop. just, slow down and decrease. the point of this thread, my point is, just to tell people that you should start submitting more loud and big skin as much as we love the old days with all the great designers around. though now, many have left, the new people should try to make big and loud skins. :)
 
 
theboydisturbed's icon Author: theboydisturbed
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  lols.
i can't believe my name's actually up there. how flattering.
well for now skinning's gotta take a backseat. exams are like, 2 weeks away. and then i'm PACKED for the holidays. lols, i'll be travelling to 2 countries during the holidays. whee. supposed to be 3, but my parents said no. sad.

anyways, i agree that the simple skins are getting a bit TOO common. and i can't exactly say i'm not a culprit of falling into it. because there was a certain period of time where my mind was so cluttered, my blog needed to be empty so that i wouldn't get pissed.

i guess it depends on the mindset you have when you make skins.
and you have no idea how often i've been saying that everything depends on mindset.
lols.
 
 
burning.balloons's icon Author: burning.balloons
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  i like simple skins that stands out. :D
heh.
and i love check yes juliet by we the kings! (so out of topic, heh.)

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/!nsomnia®'s icon Author: /!nsomnia®
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  Simple skins are fine, but I know what you mean, a few days ago the SOTDs were sick, I know I have perfectly no rights to say that. Anyway, I love your skins very much XSTACY, rock on :)
 
 
burning.balloons's icon Author: burning.balloons
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  and i realised that more skin are becoming the "series kind" .
yknow, like thebikiniboy's kind ?
i know i have no rights to say,(seeing i have submitted nil skins)
but its getting very not original already huh?
imagine one day you come to bs and found all the skins series kind. ._.
 
 
TheAngryMob's icon Author: TheAngryMob
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  I'll try and come back after Os~ :D
 
 
KILLTHEWORST's icon Author: KILLTHEWORST
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  haha well, about the SOTD, quite a number brought that sub...so just fyi only.
and yeap, as a skinner, dont just submit simple skins :D
 
 
(beautiful.love)'s icon Author: (beautiful.love)
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  I do agree man, it's hard to look for a blogskin now. unless you wanna search in front of the computer everyday. All i see is always of the same kind. Yea, get loud people!
 
 
THEVERONICANOTE's icon Author: THEVERONICANOTE
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  Mmh I have no idea how to make images click with the skin itself though :/ I like making signatures and LPs but when it comes to blogskins I phail.
 
 
♥ooh-'s icon Author: ♥ooh-
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  Argh, so not those bigbigbig one word skins.
typography.
well. Start a competition after exam period.
 
 
daylight's icon Author: daylight
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  I support the idea of the competition. That can help me to relax after PSLE (: Get real, get loud.
 
 
daylight's icon Author: daylight
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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  I support the idea of the competition. That can help me to relax after PSLE (: Get real, get loud.

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