We have released a few Yahoo! Messenger skins in past which can be found in our "Yahoo! Messenger" section. Many people also want to create their own skins. So today we are going to tell you how to create Yahoo! Messenger skins?
1. Go to "%Programfiles%\Yahoo!\Shared\Graphics" folder. You'll see following 2 folders under it:
- Indigo
- Maverick
These folders contain the skins which you see in Yahoo! Messenger Skins List. So if you want to create your own skin, copy any of these 2 folders and paste it again, it'll create a new folder. Rename the folder to any name which you want to set as your skin's name.
2. Now open this new folder and you'll see lots of images there. You can customize those images according to your requirement.
3. To change the text color, text size, button locations, etc, you can use the XML file present in this folder. It's name would be skin_name.xml (e.g. indigo.xml, maverick.xml). You'll need to modify first few lines in this file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<skin version="2007.11.07.1"
compatible="2"
AuthorName="Vishal Gupta"
AuthorURL="http://www.askvg.com"
Signature="Microsoft MVP"
SkinName="Y! Vista by Vishal Gupta"
PreviewImage="preview_Y!_Vista.jpg">
You can change them to set your name and skin name.
4. That's it. Once you finish, you can apply the skin using Yahoo! Messenger.
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Mudee
hey, guy, thank you very very much!!!
Winston
Austin David Sell Ritenour
This doesn't really help
somebody
the only way to make a 9.0 skin is to start from another theme
only experts can start from scratch and make ther own colors.xml
i started my live theme from silver skin
i took the colors.xml from icy blue
koob tea
thank u very much...
it's great
Jack
i was interested in doing this but i think it takes a bit too long. is there a quicker way of creating skins?
Jack
for yahoo messenger i mean*
salman
is that work in yahoo 9.0?
VG
^^ No.
Andy
Thanks for the tips, Vishal. I've gone through your website and picked up a few tricks here and there. And this is the result: http://i44.tinypic.com/evcdig.jpg
There's alot of demand out there for a minimalist style yahoo messenger and that's what I've tried to create. As you can see, I've altered some menus and removed some buttons. I need help moving some buttons around though. Mainly the buttons in "my information" area. I would like to move The custom status area down to where the email icon is, and move the emial icon elsewhere. How would I go about achieving this?
Regards,
Andrew