As some of you might already have read in this thread, I'm planning on creating sort of a be-all, end-all index of all the themes out there for Mac OS X, even more comprehensive than the one at ResExcellence. Because this is such a huge undertaking, though, I don't intend to go out myself and search through all the themes in existence. Instead, I'd like the authors of the themes (or, in the case of themes whose authors don't frequent these boards, volunteers from the theming community) to go collect them and add them to the site, which is tentatively named ThemeTracker (for its resemblance to VersionTracker, which I promise will not extend to advertising or lameness).
Rather than go to the trouble of making a Web form or submission system, I've decided to do something a bit easier, at least to start. Basically, to add a theme, you upload a preview and the theme file itself, then write a short file called a tdesc that gives the vital information about that theme. It's very human-readable, and takes about thirty seconds to write from start to finish. Once you've written the tdesc, you upload that as well, and the theme will automatically be added to the site the next time my program does a sweep of the tdesc files.
To add a theme, download Apple's iDisk Utility or find some other way of connecting to a Public folder on someone else's iDisk, and connect to Phoenix1701. I don't *think* you have to be a .Mac member to do this, but if you do, let me know and I'll look for another way (though I can't promise anything, since I don't have any shell accounts lying around I can afford to give complete strangers read/write access to). You'll see a readme file there, as well as a sample tdesc file you can copy for your own theme. Please only upload themes that you've written, or themes written by people you know won't see this post (like some of the theme designers over at ResExcellence). Also, please don't announce this anywhere else yet, because if a lot of people start uploading things I'm not sure my iDisk will be able to handle it!
Also, anyone willing to offer bandwidth for the site, please email me! I'm quite liable to take you up on it, regardless of the domain name.
Rather than go to the trouble of making a Web form or submission system, I've decided to do something a bit easier, at least to start. Basically, to add a theme, you upload a preview and the theme file itself, then write a short file called a tdesc that gives the vital information about that theme. It's very human-readable, and takes about thirty seconds to write from start to finish. Once you've written the tdesc, you upload that as well, and the theme will automatically be added to the site the next time my program does a sweep of the tdesc files.
To add a theme, download Apple's iDisk Utility or find some other way of connecting to a Public folder on someone else's iDisk, and connect to Phoenix1701. I don't *think* you have to be a .Mac member to do this, but if you do, let me know and I'll look for another way (though I can't promise anything, since I don't have any shell accounts lying around I can afford to give complete strangers read/write access to). You'll see a readme file there, as well as a sample tdesc file you can copy for your own theme. Please only upload themes that you've written, or themes written by people you know won't see this post (like some of the theme designers over at ResExcellence). Also, please don't announce this anywhere else yet, because if a lot of people start uploading things I'm not sure my iDisk will be able to handle it!
Also, anyone willing to offer bandwidth for the site, please email me! I'm quite liable to take you up on it, regardless of the domain name.