I talked to Cruleworld a few days ago, and he said that he's not going to be working on his theme site much. The past few days I've been working on making my own theme site, though it will be solely for the Sansas (at least, for right now - I have it coded to allow for others when the time comes) unlike rockbox-themes.org. My reasons for another theme site:
I feel the need to see how much bandwidth I can use (ok, not really a reason, but yeah...)
Rockbox-themes.org isn't accepting new submissions due to server issues. While I have heard that there's some sort of plan to integrate Rockbox-themes.org into the official Rockbox site, I heard that months ago, and haven't seen much progress yet...
I'm taking a break from updating my Rockbox build for a little while - not quite sure how long, but I need a break. School is supposed to be a higher priority than the build, and that hasn't been true recently. However, because I want to stay involved in Rockbox, this (and other feature on my site) gives me something to do.
The site is already coded to allow searching by user (though not enabled yet) and could probably be easily extended to allow by popularity and other things. Rockbox-themes doesn't have this as far as I know, so it'd be kinda new.
An additional feature on the site is the ability for it to download attachments directly from ABi, for those who already uploaded the theme here. Support for this is kind of iffy based on how it works, so it's kind of a "half feature" I suppose... However, it should allow fetching from other URLs that don't require logging in.
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Ok, I don't know how I went from reasons for another theme site to features...must be tired. Anyway, the ability to submit themes is kind of there, but I'm not giving out the link for it until I get it working better - still has quite a few bugs. In any event, I will need some testers in the future, as well as a design, as I'm not using the one I use for the rest of the site.



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March 11th, 2008 at 8:46 am
I really hope this works and is up soon! This would probably give me the motivation to start theming!
You could get a very large selection if it got popular.
One suggestion, you could have categories:
Album art or None
Viewports or None
Completed or still in progress
etc.
March 11th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I could be a tester!
March 11th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
So far I don't need any testers, as I have someone who's good with graphics and someone who's good with designing. I'm good at coding, so it's pretty much under control at the moment.
There's a few designs we've discussed, but I want a few user opinions:
http://chrisjs.com/download/sitess
Filenames are those that begin with theme(x).jpg (none are up as of right now, but should be shortly)
EDIT: Three designs should be up now. I enabled directory listing and direct viewing, so the download dialog box shouldn't come up in the /sitess directory.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Hey, I'm good at designing, too, but it's ok!
Hmmmm... Hard, I like them all!
I think I like the 1st...
More suggestions:
User accounts (I would put that high on the list)
Make all three and allow people to choose which one they want.
Can't wait! Do you have an estimation on when you will have at least the database and a minimal skin up?
March 12th, 2008 at 8:18 am
When I said "I would put that high on the list" I meant the list of to-dos
Maybe, also, you could Have pages to download personalized builds, fonts, etc.
March 12th, 2008 at 8:20 am
When I said "Hey, I'm good at designing, too, but it's ok!" I was just joking!
March 13th, 2008 at 8:09 am
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