Zion Visual Style for Windows XP  v4.0
copyright WB Skinner November 2003



Hey folks!

v4.0 ...whats new?..lots..10 colors...

Tealmeal    - Silver and black with teal trim
Seer        - Deep wine and white metal with gold trim
Oldflick    - Black and White
Matrix      - Black and neon green
Fire        - Wicked orange with white trim
Stryk       - Light metallic brown and black
Deviant     - Devious greenish-grey
Pilgrim     - Lighter blue and grey with white trim
Machinik    - Silver, black, with gold trim
Deepblu     - Black, dark blue with silver trim

- 9 custom walls made by myself


-new default buttons in all colors (yet again)
-new browser buttons...all text is readable now Bo
-new 'all progs' menu in Matrix, Pilgrim, and Fire
-new caption bars for Fire and Pilgrim
-new status bars throughout
-new DA logo on Deviant
-fixed button alignments on toolbars throughout
-fixed a caption-margin problem
-tons of small tweaks cause I'm a tweakfreak

I don't know if this is the final release of Zion..I'm getting lots of good feedback which has been quite helpful in finding the small bugs...thanks to all who helped (you know who you are). I have a new skin in the works but I'm also still fixing the old ones.

Send color suggestions and bug reports to:

slktfiredude@yahoo.ca

IMPORTANT notes before using Zion:

- DON'T FORGET TO INSTALL THE LUCIDA GRANDE FONT... SIMPLY DRAG IT TO YOUR C:\WINDOWS\FONTS FOLDER.

- Turn on your CLEARTYPE FONT SMOOTHING! The Lucida font won't look right without it.

- Zion seems to look better with a minimum of clutter (icons) on the panel and is only meant to be used with regular sized fonts.

Ok all that said.........Hope you like it!



WB Skinner 




INSTALL: (for newbies and potheads)

- make sure you have StyleXP installed.

- unzip to temp folder.

- move Zion folder to c:windows\resources\themes directory

- install Lucida Grande font (see above)

- turn on font smoothing (cleartype) in the 'display properties' panel (right click the desktop and choose 'properties')...appearance tab...hit the effects button...its in there.

- access Zion in the 'windows and buttons' pulldown menu in the display properties-appearance tab and choose one of the five colors from the 'color scheme' pulldown menu below it.

-apply wallpaper of choice

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