Theme Contest Discussion

[SaWey]

This thread is here to provide a place to ask and answer questions about the Coppermine Theme Contest
Please do not ask questions about anything else in here, or your reply will be removed instantly.

Good luck designing a new theme!

[Ludo]

Public voting will end on February 15th 2009

...and when will it begin? It's just 5 days to the deadline...

[François Keller]

I think the deadline will be changed 

[Paver]

There were not enough submissions for a proper theme contest, so the dev team is considering what to do next.

Voting has been put on hold indefinitely, and the theme announcement thread has been marked accordingly.

Thanks, Ludo, for your interest in the theme contest.

[Fabricio Ferrero]

Maybe my comment would not be welcome but I can read between the lines that the dev team should (somehow) change the way that the themes are made to make easier for users to create them.

There are 679.000 links acording to Google -link: http://coppermine-gallery.net- (more than 99% are galleries) poiting to the Coppermine site, so there are a lot of users.

Why didn't they get into the contest? I read somewhere that they don't like the way that the themes are created in CPG. If someone could improve the theme creation part I think would be diferent. (Maybe for the next version.. Yes, I know, many years ahead..).


**---One of the tools already added is the little box showing 'news' in the Admin panel. That's great for this type of situation when you need to announce things, sadly, 1.4 doesn't have it. --**   

[SaWey]

Yeah, the theme engine is not convenient for everybody, we will discuss this but I don't think this will change in the 1.x branch.

[RC8code]

I agree that creating themes with Coppermine is not that easy, especially for beginners like me. Are there any plans to do a new theme contest? Sorry if Im out of the loop...

p.s.: In that gallery, some of the themes from this site are great! 

[Joachim Müller]

Locking! The link in your profile is not Coppermine-driven and therefore not allowed. Prove that you're not a spammer by respecting board rules and changing the link in your profile. If you don't, I'll react accordingly.