Announcements July 2011

What a busy beginning of the month for us here. We want to welcome all of our new members from Theme Worx. We know you are going through a rough time and there are many confusing issues at hand. I will try to be of some help, and I will be setting up an orientation process for anyone who decides this is the site they want to post at. For now though I am just going to get to the most pressing issues effecting us all.

We are a community of layout designers code makers and other artists and intellectuals. Browse our layouts and use them for your personal pages!


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 ... unless otherwise noted.

Here is what that means: Clicky. It is my understanding that people are not sure what this license allows. If you have questions about that, please ask them there at that link and I will do my best to clarify anything I can. I will say this, once released under this license it can not be revoked.

So, if you are some one who might be interested in contributing here I will want you to have a good understanding of this license and the licenses of the works you wish to use in your themes. We have kept this site free of controversy for over 2yrs and I intend to keep it that way by following these simple rules. Designer's Guide to the Galaxy.

If you read this and discover that you are not able to comply with these guidelines, then we ask you to design at a site that does not have such standards. You are on the honor system here as I do not have the time or resources to play image or code police. If you are found to be less than honorable in these practices you may be asked to cease and desist or leave with no hard feelings.

On another note as mentioned, I am going to compile a simple "Orientation" post for those who are unfamiliar with our wacky site. Ning is not our first home and I have decided to be ready for when or if we leave it all together, as there are limits to what one can or will endure. So, in short, our layouts and forums with all of our juicy codes are kept on my own servers where I can make my own back-ups and have more freedom at a lower cost. :) This forum is not open registration but by request to me only. If you want to join us there let me know and I will sign you up. The layout site is open registration but entirely different from this site.

We use Ning for our social activities and because we love to make layouts for here. I am in the process of cleaning out the layouts from our blogs as that was our old way of posting until I developed our current system. I will make exceptions for new posters to start off posting in their blogs so they can see how I post their layouts, but eventually you will have to post them yourself at the layout site and clear them from your blogs. Sorry for the inconvenience, but we prefer to use the blogs for things other then layouts to save on confusion and disk space. There are a few long lost original Skem9 designers whose blogs will remain as they are distant now, but not forgotten.

If there is anything I left out or that you feel needs to be addressed please let me know below.

AnGella