It's too bad that a real index of articles/etc isn't on the link. That graphic is a horrible tool.

Scroll down dude, scroll down.

hehe hey someone picking on the dutchy's graphics? and yes you need to scroll down to the text menu for the more simple minded ppl...

I rather like hide and seek for my links... hehe

I liked this issue overall, the Honz12 interview is my favorite feature.

Heh, sorry, didn't mean the front page. But once you click a link you are stuck with the hide and seek navigation.

for an art mag, someone needs to build a decent website. ease-of-use factor is next to nil and the main graphic is a joke. A newbie is supposed to know what that says?

Yeah, these people who contribute their spare-time for free to bring a service to the community need to try harder, right? I just find it hard to swallow that so many people go out of their way to do things for others and people can't just repect them for that. I am not against criticism, but why the need to talk down to people?

Indeed, kudos to the tek crew for contributing their spare-time to bring us an interesting read, for free...

Thanks you guys for sticking up for us
but it's okay cuz criticism is healthy, I just the critics don't sway crae to stop drawing bunnies, cuz crae's bunnies turn me onnnnnnn!!! hehe

and I think actually crae is working on other things to make the site alittle better
so just be patient VERY patient cuz crae is half sloth hehe

can someone please stick a "hope" word up in there before the "critics" word?
Thank you

The big question is: are newbies supposed to know what it's all about? If you think of the target audience, will interviews with skinners and other noteworthy persons in our small world be interesting to those new to it or more to the ones who know who they are?

Then again, can anyone read my scribbles, besides moi?

virophile: spare me please. So you're saying that just because they do this for free it's ok for things to be illegible? umm yeh you'll go far in web business.

The big question, of course is, was this released quietly?

Well I see that they aren't going to cover the GUI Olympics because they can't avoid editorializing it to death.

If they had simply covered the events, as they happened with just the facts (like who won, which skin won, etc.) that would have been cool.

But Kenray wanted to wait until it was over. But I suspect that the article Kenray's friend did is full of partisan judgements.

And so, the "skinner's journal", which had time to interview Shoggot's rantings fails to cover what was probably the most significant single event in the skinning community of 2002 (130 skins created in a month's time by dozens of skinners representatives of half a dozen different skinning sites with the judges being the admins of the leading skin sites and one of the judges being the man who wrote the book on GUI Design).

Don't get me wrong, I am glad Teknidermy exists. But at this point, it really seems more like a personal blogging site (I have a blog site at www.joeuser.com) than a skinning journal since the things they cover are increasingly related to the types of things that interest a very specific clique of users (a clique I am admittedly part of which is why I read each issue).

But it's a lot less like a skinning journal and more like a "people magazine" about the personalizties of the old guard skinners (and increasingly people who don't actively make skins now). There's nothign wrong with that, I just think a skinners magazine having a heck of a lot of potential. It's just everytime I read it I can't help but imagine that it's really being written for the handful of people who hang out on a skinners IRC channel and not trying to reach out to the tens of thousands of people who now create skins.