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✧ UPDATE ✧

For the past month, I've been quite ill due to some serious health issues — I had to postpone many projects, including the new skin I've been planning to start working on. I had planned to go for something less minimalistic and more elegant this time, perhaps even medieval?

Now that my health has improved significantly, I plan on going back to commissions and projects and I'd like to ask your opinion on which theme to go for!

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As Promised, A Poll

As I mentioned before, I intend to put out a series of Free to Use skins with consistent features & standards that are easy to install, edit, & use. These will be designed off of the inspiration of specific games, series of games, & genres of games.

I will, however, only be using games I can clearly see a visual language in the UI of. I went through a few hundred games yesterday perusing UIs & considering atmosphere to determine the shapes, themes, & vibes they might offer that would work in a skin.

I now have a working, if incomplete, list to pull from. So now, I'm going to post a weekly poll with games to choose from & brief descriptions of their general design philosophy. That said, I am already working on two skins that are inspired by games; Alan Wake 2 & Control both from Remedy games.

A sampler of the Alan Wake skin, which will be called Vigil. My notes for the skin were: Green, Moody, Noire/Surreal Detective, Lovecraftian/Unknown Menace.

As you can see, the header starts with a greeting for logged out members, or an announcement brief in the case of the logged in member. Clicking the username or briefing button in the box will bring up a full page modal containing userlinks, quicklinks, & a large custom account switcher if logged in, or featured wanteds if not. It's nothing fancy, but I thought a visual would help folks know how I design based on what will seem like vague/brief descriptors in the polls.

Speaking of which, it's time to get to the first of them. Of course, the Remedy inspired skins will be my first works, but I'd like to collate a list for what comes after, so when I hit a block or am just doodling while busy, I can get a head start on designing others...

Feel free to pick the one you like most, don't worry, none are being eliminated unless they have no interest at all, this is just about forming an ordered list based on demand. I want to make skins that are needed the most the fastest. That's all for now, thank you all so much & I would be obliged if the reach was extended through sharing <3

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HI, so long time no talk! I haven't gone anywhere, I just had some personal financial troubles that were resolved via...lots of overtime! I am a physicist by day, so that meant I became one by night for a couple months. But I remained coding, designing, & sketching things in my scant moments.

More importantly, I've been doing a lot of reading & observing of the Jcink RPC & I am really gutted by the lack of free resources I've seen become manifest. As a result, I've been percolating some easy design methods I could use to fast track totally free skins to give out as bi-monthly as I can manage in the near future.

Because I'm not one to stick to an aesthetic or design style so much as following a settled philosophy of coding, each of my skins will be entirely unique (no reused assets besides utility scripts, perhaps fonts, etc) but will all be;

Designed to be entirely responsive, with fallback & default setups for Custom Fields, image appearance or omission, etc.

Designed to load in a second & half or under, universally.

Neatened to be readable, cascade-organized, & fully notated with CSS & HTML notes to explain important components, how they work, & how to edit them.

Provided with a dark, light, & middle theme colour option as well as High Contrast option.

Provided with Staff, Member & Character profile & miniprofiles.

Provided with a full Custom BBCode suite of site templates to match the skin.

Based on the UI/UX design of a game with striking visuals that can be used for similar genres.

Now, this is a tall order, but I really want to flex my muscle & try to give folks something to be optimistic over in a landscape of drama-blog wastelanded distress. I want to put out something productive & positive, to make the community better & bring us together a bit <3 As a result, I'm going to need a little help from you all. I need to figure out which "Inspos" to work off of first based on desire for them, to fill the starving niches from most important to "least" so to speak. For the next few weeks, I'll post some polls & would be endlessly grateful if you all paid it forward by boosting but also voting on the games whose vibes you want to see MOST PRESSINGLY manifested as skins in the Jcink RPC.

I will, also, eventually port each one to Forumactivo, so for my Forumactivo folks, please let me know when you get specific polls so I can prioritize converting those skins for you! You deserve just as much love!

Of course, if there's a specific game you want to see feel free to comment on this post & I'll make sure to put it in the first poll, but for now that's all. The first list of inspo options will come out later today or tomorrow, Stay tuned & stay awesome, may the Dance keep you all absolutely blessed!

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Black Hole free jcink theme

Black Hole is a dark, modern, sci-fi jcink skin meant to be simple and easy to read.

Live preview: illustrious.jcink.net/index.php

Download: https://ko-fi.com/s/a1dedce539

Features

Mobile friendly

Custom Profile

Custom member list

Six member group colors

Font Awesome 6

Basic custom BBCodes

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 This skin is free for non-commercial use, you may edit/adapt/share, as long as you leave credit intact and allow others to use/edit/share on the same terms.

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Gorgeous, so clean. Fantastic work!

(Portfolio post of a completed commission. Not for sale!)

First things first, I want to personally thank this individual for being so patient and understanding while we worked together; this past year was very indelicate to me and it was much harder than I expected. Thankfully, this client was the epitome of grace and compassion and showed me an endless amount of kindness when I failed to meet deadlines or took longer than expected to deliver. Individuals like this are truly a gift to work with, and I appreciate their generosity being given when I needed it most.

This is a commission I recently completed that was for an Okami-based site, which is outside of my normal wheelhouse since I know nothing about Okami as a whole. Luckily they were very accommodating to that and were able to provide me with some direction thematically. While the skin ended up differing from the initial vision that they had after a few overhauls, I think it came out quite nicely in the end.

(I especially love how the renders look over the dark areas of the skin! It makes me think of a chalkboard drawing done by hand.)

This commission also tested pretty much everything I thought I knew how to do and my ability to put it into practice - including learning how to do new things, and make new resources!

The end result looks and feels wonderful; I wish the site, its staff, and all the future members a lovely and bright future.

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✿ thank you! ✿

happy sunday! i wanted to give a huge shout out to those of you who filled out my little survey. the feedback has been immensely helpful and the ideas have definitely started flowin. (:

the general consensus is a simple and modern skin would be best to better suit all rp genres, with all the works (an auto face claim, changing up the forum style options, fully loaded profile, more template options, etc.). i'm going to do my best to include as much as i can in this next skin while making it less complicated and geared toward a broader audience.

i've started making a wireframe and i'm excited to see where my inspiration takes me. if you didn't get a chance to fill out the survey, i would still appreciate any feedback that y'all want to give. i'm up for any suggestions if you want to throw them my way. <3

thanks everyone!! have a great week!

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skin interest check:

would anyone be interested in a skin that's geared toward sandbox sites? whether for public sites or private ones. it would come with avatar replacement/my character info replacement scripts preloaded and a main profile catered towards writer info instead of character info.

i was working on a private sandbox rp but it's very dead and i'd loveee for the skin/codes i came up with to be put to use!

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Stunning.

Spoke to a new friend I made through the anonymous feature right here on this blog, and we're onto something (maybe?)

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programmer 😅

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VIOLET CRAZY Jcink Skin - $60 CAD

VIOLET CRAZY is a fully responsive, mobile-friendly Jcink skin. I’ve made it as user-friendly as possible with easy-to-edit variables and cues within the HTML which are also in the installation guide. Template Set #1 and Freestyle Profile Templates are fully functional with this skin.

Please read my terms of service before purchasing: https://hexxincodes.tumblr.com/post/721896465243537408/terms-conditions Purchase on my kofi: https://ko-fi[dot]com/s/fe74d1a98b

DETAILS -

All colors, fonts, and images set as variables for easy editing

Dark/light toggle

Full HTML templates

Isotope member list

Guidebook with 6 tabs set

Skin changes colors according to member group (10 set up)

Profile app with room for unlimited fields

Automatic tracker in profiles

Forums change accents w/ last poster

Full installation guide

UPON PURCHASE -

Full xml file

HTML templates xml file

Profile fields json

Installation guide pdf

Guidebook txt file

CREDITS - Isotope memberlist script is by Essi, the dark/light toggle script was created by Yuno, #CODE script is by Nicole/Thunderstruck, icons are from Phosphor Icons, automatic tracker by FizzyElf.

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the lazy coders guide...

okay, so from my various trolls through mammoth google searches to learn bits about coding, i’ve discovered a few wonderful resources out there which actually do some of ( and in some cases, a lot of ) the hard work for you… 

these are otherwise known as code generators… here are a few of my faves;;

( NB/ all of the generators are pure CSS - no javascript is needed… )

CSS3 generator - includes generators for; border radius, box shadow, text shadow, rgba, font face, multiple columns, box resize, box sizing, outline, transition, transform, flexbox and gradient

EnjoyCSS - is another multi option generator and will give great live previews with a ton of options - includes; blocks, buttons, text, gradients, backgrounds, shadows, border radius, transition, transformation

CSS3maker - is again, another multi option generator - includes; border radius, gradient, transform, animation, transition, rgba, text shadow, box shadow, text rotation, fontface

Layerstyles - for those of you who use photoshop, this is the editor for you!  it will generate CSS code from a PS like editor that should be very familiar - includes; drop shadow, inner shadow, background, border, border radius

Westciv - includes options to generate; gradients, text properties, box properties, transformations

here are some individual generators which give a little more detail and flexibility with the options;

scrollbar generator border radius generator gradient generator  gradient generator box shadow button generator button generator menu generator menu generator ( includes bootstrap option ) menu generator tooltip generator tooltip generator ribbon generator table generator table generator typeset generator ease animations full box styling full box styling pattern generator

enjoy :3 love from, octomoosey <3

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Gorgeous.

Angel Eyes - $50, Unlimited Sale

It is finally here, after much tweaking and writing! The Angel Eyes skin is a classic side-by-side forum skin with a light/dark mode and a side table. It's responsive on smaller sizes. It is optimized for Google Chrome but has been cross-tested in other browsers.

The skin includes the following features:

All custom HTML templates

A side information table

A light/dark mode toggle

Custom variables for easier theme editing

5 pre-installed member groups plus admin colors

A complete installation guide to set up all parts of the skin

A guidebook webpage template

Basic posting styles for use in and out of default posting templates

10 default posting templates

Please read my policies prior to purchasing. 

Purchase the skin here: https://ko-fi [dot] com/s/caff3881f1

Live previews can be given upon request. 

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A Quick Note

I was going to post a WIP snapshot update of several projects plus an exciting new one, but I logged on to a really nasty anonymous Ask that I'm not going to share here because frankly you don't deserve it being read.

But I want to make something immensely clear, if you're ableist & your ableism causes you to have a problem with my more simplified style of design, or the fact that I won't use certain inaccessible scripts, or the fact that when I answer you in DMs I turn down tutorializing certain design trends?

The door is right there.

If my simpler colour schemes, or my more minimalist designs, or my refusal to use or design doHTML is a problem for you? You are welcome to not buy any skins I may ever sell. You are welcome to never commission me if or when I ever open commissions. You are welcome to not engage with this blog if the content on it does not appeal to you either in style, taste, or substance.

This is not a hostage situation. The door is right there. You send me a nasty ask every couple weeks, I don't post them & I won't post them, this is the only time I'm going to even address you directly whoever tf you are.

I'm building skins I personally like, skins I can actually use. If they're not your cuppa that is absolutely fine, but if you're going to be an ableist cunt about it come off of anon because you wrote & proofread(ostensibly), then hit send on that nasty trashfire of an Ask to try ruining my day. You should stand ten toes down in that nasty hateful puddle you pissed out.

Leave me alone.

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Notion Skin Building Guide - Free

get now on my ko-fi

[EN] Soooo, I did a thing! I've fallen completely for Notion and have been using like crazy. I decided to make an ultimate masterlist to keep track of my commissions and premade and thought - why not make it available? So this is a guide containing resources, to-do lists and much more.

It's free for use! So please, like and reblog if you use it.

[PT] Entããão, eu fiz uma coisa! Virei a doida do Notion! Decidi fazer uma masterlist das masterlists pra me organizar com minhas skins e pensei - por que não disponibilizá-las? Portanto, este é um guia que contém recursos, listas de tarefas e muito mais.

O uso é grátis! Se utilizar, por favor goste e compartilhe!

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Time to Say Goodbye

Hey guys! Hope everyone's doing good.

I'm posting this today as an official "goodbye" from Tumblr.

As much as I've loved creating themes, fonts and other goodies for you guys here, it's finally time to leave that for new creators.

All of my work will remain available, and you can get it all together in Suiomi's Everything Bundle, which includes all of my themes and the full Cappuccicons downloadable font:

Cappucicons PNG

Cappucicons SVG

Rihanna

Karina

Julissa

Nayeli

Nathalia

Kenya

Peyton

Clara

Mia

Get Suiomi's Everything Bundle [here].

I'd like to thank every single one of you who have supported me. It's been at least 10 years of creativity fueled by your love and support. I hope you guys have enjoyed my work throughout all these years.

Thank you so much again, and I hope my work will still make your projects and hobbies shine in years to come.

Stay safe, Suiomi

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Immortales: Skin Bundle ($20)

I've been wanting to branch out into a more minimalist style for a while, and found the opportunity to do so when I was struck by the coding bug over the weekend and began to experiment with a more semi-transparent style of index that eventually evolved into this. I tried to keep the skin as light as physically possible, with minimal Javascript or Jquery inclusions, and instead tried to optimize it to build off of HTML5 elements as best I could without needing to weigh it down with more external resources.

The Immortales skin is a dark themed, responsive skin for Jcink forums, and is optimized for Google Chrome. (Cross-tested in Opera GX and Mozilla Firefox.)

You can purchase the skin here: https://ko-fi[DOT]com/s/6f663cfe6e

Bundle Includes:

All custom HTML structures

a forum index a topic row for threads a post row with a sticky/hover mini profile a main profile custom board stats, with the five (5) recent topics appended a member list, sortable by filters

Full set of DOHTML templates

x1 general announcement/admin template x1 application template (tabbed, for threads) x4 thread templates x5 development templates x1 miscellaneous codes for TW/CW x1 tabbed webpage/guidebook

Custom Userlinks Menu

Easy to add/modify group variables for color coordination (five groups already included)

Responsive to smaller monitors

Upon purchase, buyers will receive an installation guide with editing and customization instructions, as well as any XML/HTML files.

Support & Refunds:

Refunds or returns are not offered on pre-made skins. Due to the nature of how they're distributed and the fact that they're digital files I cannot offer refunds for a purchase if you buy a skin from me.

If you encounter bugs or skin-breaking issues, please reach out to me and I will do my best to fix them and provide you with updated files.

I do not offer coding support beyond initial problems with my skins at install. (i.e. Finding a bug when you install a fresh copy of the skin onto your site, etc.) If the skin breaks during modifications you make on your own, I am willing to help restore the skin to it's original state. I do not provide support for third party coding that is not mine.