RejZor started this professional skins fever, and since it looks like good idea, I decided to try with something new…
This one should follow avast! web site design. Any comments are very much appreciated.
Thanks !
Cheers !
i like it(looks professional,matches with avast very well)when will it be available?bri
Wow… oh, my opinion is suspect here as I always like Sasha’s skins.
My suggestion? Well, what they think it is a professional skin?
If we can get it we won’t listen this anymore 
Omg omg omg :o :o :o Now this design kicks ass ^2
Make the buttons same flat design and you’re winner 
I just always wondered if it’s possible to hide those Local Disks/Removal media/Folders,before they are acually needed. You’d have button named On-Demand and when you’d press it you’d get these buttons and not before.
But for now i haven’t got that far…
Thanks people… don’t think that I don’t wanna hear constructive criticism. I need everything you can give, so I can turn this process into desired direction. You all know that I really care what avast! users think, so it is very important to me that I hear from you people… like always.
@ RejZor - what do you mean by “flat design” buttons ? Just plain square buttons or something else ? With this particular skin, I just tried to 100% follow the official web site design… see here under QUICK LINKS section ( Desktop solutions, Small Business solutions, Corporate solutions ):
http://www.avast.com/index.html
I tried to make same buttons as those from the web site, but if you people think those should be changed into something else… let’s hear those opinions. I can work on it, and make something different if you want…
RejZor - your idea about ON-DEMAND button, and hidden Local Disks/Removal media/Folders buttons is wonderful, but I am not aware how to do that at this point. I think, we should talk to Alwil guys and see is it possible to do that only from inside the code, or we can do something from the skin… which I highly doubt just because you know how much our work in SkinBuilder is limited… all we can control are those animations and graphics… :-\
Thanks bri. I can’t say much right now, since I have few other projects running at this point, but I’m working on it and it’s just a matter of days… I still want to hear your opinions people, and I don’t want to start compiling it before I hear suggestions and comments.
Thanks again !
Cheers !
No,i meant that buttons should be flat,not with some 3D effect.
But as you said,you’ll follow website design,so buttons will be as they should.
I was thinking about that On-Demand button to act similar to On-Access sensitivity level button on Simple interface. But so far it’s only in my head. I still have to install ActiveSkin again…
I understand you regarding buttons, but one thing is not quite clear… I really don’t see any sign of 3D in those buttons except that diagonal cut-off on one corner. I thought, you want to have sharp square instead ot those on the screenshot. Buttons are single coloured with just one additional color and that’s orange, from the web site.
On-Demand and On-Access buttons would be nice to have, but unfortunately, if you try to “dig” little bit in SkinBuilder, you’ll find that there is nothing that will point us what are those functions for specific buttons. We can’t see where is the link between buttons and that particular function inside the code… if there is something like that, sure we could use those information and try to make something like that, but until then… I don’t know…
Another thing, keeps bugging me… if we add those buttons, and then by pressing let’s say On-Demand button, we invoke showing of those additional 3 buttons (Local Disks/Removal media/Folders) it doesn’t sound like shortcut… so I’m sure we’ll have many people complaining about that. Before they had those 3 buttons in front of them, ready for action, but this way, they would be forced to press On-Demand button first, and then one of those 3 buttons…
Actually you’re right.
About buttons i meant compared to your previous skins where you usually used 3D effect on buttons. Don’t listen to me or i’ll just confuse you even more ;D
Just follow the website design as you first intended
I’ll try to see what else can be removed or maybe added (not much though, but as you can see, there are still missing those minimize, close and help buttons on this screenshot EDIT: I just added them ).
I would really like to hear from (as many as it’s possible) avast! users. Everyone’s opinion counts, just like yours… if you have better idea for buttons, just shoot ;D I like to experiment with those things, as you already know…
Btw, your new skin (the one that’s still in progress) is really good. I really like it… except maybe one small thing, if I may say… that font color seems little bit too dark comparing to background, or is it just me I don’t know… maybe just a half tone down, just a color lighter… just a suggestion. Keep up great work !
Yeah i was also thinking about that. Checkboxes were so dark that you hardly see checkmark inside. I’ll probably go with lighter gray instead of dark one.
The other thing that rips me is… I know that Vlk will not be too happy with idea of completely removing icons from this skin. I really wanted so bad to make one skin without those icons. When you think about everything, those icons are helping skins looking “music-player” like, which is the first thing we want to avoid, right ?
I remember Vlk said we should try not to go with English words inside those buttons, just because those can not be translated (of course, they are not text files, just plain bitmaps), so it may look strange when other languages are in use. But still, I would like to make this skin exactly as it is… without icons…
It’s seems that this skin will be amazing ;D
It have a professional design… 
Suggestion:
Don’t put all the letters in uppercase in the information section…
Wow that’s really awesome! 
No problem with that… that’s another thing we can not control. It’s hardcoded in avast! program code, so don’t worry, it will always be in small letters. That’s just how I made my screenshot… btw, to avoid future confusion, I just redesigned preview picture… (check first post in this thread again…)
Cheers !
Great work, Sasha! My little suggestion concerns the 3 button at the top right side: is it possible to make its a little more larger? What do you think about an orange border around for make its more visible? The last doubt is about the shield… is a fine object but the rounded border and the " flou" view are not exactly the better thing in this squared shape. Is only my opinion. No doubt: is a very elegant skin the same and I wait for the download!!! ;D
Those 3 buttons are also from avast official web site, so I wouldn’t touch them since they are not primary buttons on the screen. Also, orange outline doesn’t quite fit good considering that background contains blueish-grey shades. Those buttons will change the color when you hover over them. I don’t think that I should change anything regarding colors right now, since everything looks pretty clean at this point.
Also, regarding logo… there is nothing much that can be done. See official web site and you’ll notice that logo fits on that web site exactly as it fits in this skin. Everything is sharp-edged, and logo is logo… you can not redesign logo already designed by avast! official graphic designer Martin Novak. I’m just trying to make skin based on the web site…
Yes, I understand your idea and how is difficult to work with this little margins of action. I confirm what I said first: I’m ready to download this skin even if it remains the same… but I see: yuo are nearly the PERFECTION!!!
No problem Kamulko, I like to hear everybody’s opinions before I release any of my skins. If it’s something that shouldn’t or can not be changed, I always try to give explanation. Many of my skins contains changes that are affected by opinions that I’ve got from avast! users and forum members. That’s the only way, I can release skin without doubting that there is still something that avast! users won’t like…
I also noticed that you suggested some color changes for RejZor’s new skin in this thread:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=13178.msg111121#msg111121
Don’t you think that those colors are little bit too bright (orange, yellow and blue in the background), especially considering that RejZor wants to make professional styled skin ? Maybe we should stick to nice calm colors… orange is wonderful color and it blends perfectly with brown and some shades of grey. Since it’s part of the avast! official web site (but also, not too much of orange… as we all can see, there is just few very small parts coloured in orange), I’ve decided to make one skin exactly with those colors… I believe everything will be OK at the end when we see completely finished product…
Cheers !