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Introduction
Continuing my WinStep skinning tutorial, I'll be finishing our 'Sinter' theme with a skin for WorkShelf. WorkShelf is a tabbed application launcher with close links to NextStart, including theme management. You have a choice when designing a WorkShelf theme - simple or advanced skinning. The 'simple' option only requires that you create one image for the 'active' tabs and body and a second image for the 'inactive' tabs. 'Advanced' skinning allows you to create images for the main tabs and 'mini' tabs, and the body is split into sections to allow you to stretch or tile particular parts. As this provides the most flexibility, this is the method I'll be describing in this tutorial. Once again, I won't be going into the actual design of templates used, and I stress that this is just my way of skinning WorkShelf - other designers will have their own techniques. I'll be assuming that you are running WorkShelf v0.7 and that you have set up the shelves as you want them. Let's start! |
The finished theme - Sinter |