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Roy@ENHOST
03-21-2002, 10:49 PM
Hi guys.
We have been developing Cpanel theme together with Acxo Digital(Our partner), which will make it looks like Windows XP. It will be more pleasing to the eye than the default theme.
We thought of implementing the help button to our theme to guide the user , which will reduce the number of support questions you get because as a webhost ourself we get lts of questions that arise due to customers not reading the manual.
This way, customer can get support fast and it will also free us(webhosts) of some support questions.

If you are wondering how it looks like, please behold it at the URL below:
http://www.enhost.com/cpanelxp.gif

So far we are quite pleased with the layout but there are surely things to be improved.So please comment on it guys.

richy
03-21-2002, 11:04 PM
very very cool look, some of the icons tho, there damn similar to the xp ones, so similar that id have to ask, is there a copyright issue here? and with using the whole xp thing. just wondering. congrats on a very smooth looking product tho.

acetate
03-21-2002, 11:24 PM
Nice way of inviting MS to give u a call eh?

thesmallguyshost
03-21-2002, 11:33 PM
So what are you advertising to sell?

Roy@ENHOST
03-21-2002, 11:40 PM
FYI, Microsoft actually encourages people to use the XP style.
They will certainly be happy if everyone goes " XP! XP! XP!" everywhere.
They even authored a guide on how to implement the XP style!
Check it out:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/winxpicons.asp

And we are actually looking to selling the licenses for the theme if there are some response to it.

alchiba
03-21-2002, 11:46 PM
Originally posted by Roy@ENHOST
FYI, Microsoft actually encourages people to use the XP style.
They will certainly be happy if everyone goes " XP! XP! XP!" everywhere.

But on a Linux machine? LOL

Roy@ENHOST
03-21-2002, 11:57 PM
Yeah, true...at first it is kinda weird you see, but our objective is to bring the userfriendliness and attractiveness of XP style to CPanel .Anyway, Ive seen some XP style Cpanels myself before ours is developed . In fact, I am on a Windows Machine but shamefully using a OS X theme on ]Windows blinds (http://www.stardock.com/) :) :) :)


[QUOTE]Originally posted by alchiba


But on a Linux machine? LOL [/QUOTE

ho247
03-22-2002, 03:17 AM
After reading this post, I seemed to have missed the point of it? Are you giving us a sneak preview of what you want to offer on sale for CPanel theme template? Or are you just showing us what CP you use?

Alan

Roy@ENHOST
03-22-2002, 08:15 AM
We might be selling licenses for the theme so it is a good sneak preview if that happens.

But the MAIN objective is to gather as much opinions about the theme as possible.

Originally posted by ho247
After reading this post, I seemed to have missed the point of it? Are you giving us a sneak preview of what you want to offer on sale for CPanel theme template? Or are you just showing us what CP you use?

Alan

thesmallguyshost
03-22-2002, 09:04 AM
Originally posted by Roy@ENHOST
We might be selling licenses for the theme so it is a good sneak preview if that happens.

But the MAIN objective is to gather as much opinions about the theme as possible.



Then this shouldn't be in the advertising forums. The keyword being 'advertising'... not 'gathering opinions'.