This week the winners of the GUI Olmpics will be contacted to make arrangements for shipping their cash/prizes to them.

John Hughes, aka Honz, is one of the premiere WindowBlinds and Hoverdesk skin authors in the community. Not that long ago, he re-launched his site pixelperfect.

Honz has been one of the long time contributors to the skin community and has created a ton of skins over the years as well as tutorials.

Check out his site!

A week from this Monday, DesktopX 1.1 will arrive. Stardock has been putting a massive effort behind this release. It's the first public version of DesktopX since like July.

For skin authors, themers, and developers, here are some useful links:

Getting Started: http://www.desktopx.net/docs/gettingstarted.html

The new user manual:
http://www.desktopx.net/docs

Developer's page:
http://www.desktopx.net/development.html

Anyone with an account can submit news. And if it comes ot us, we generally will put it up if it's related to this site or just plain interesting.

So please feel free to submit news. This site gets millions of visitors so if you want to spread the word on something, submit it.

Ever wonder where WinCustomize's traffic comes from?

Here's a graph of March's referral statistics:

https://www.stardock.com/temp/mar02.gif

Bookmarks are return visitors plus people who visit because of Stardock's programs.

Stardock and WindowBlids.net are direct links from those pages. Those referrals used to go to skinz.org before WinCustomize was launched so you can imagine the impact that probably had on skinz in those days.

LotsOfSkins.com won nearly half the events but in points the results are as follows:

deviantART: 66 points
LotsOfSkins: 48 points
VelocityART: 38 points
Customize.org 14 points
Deskmod: 11 points
TweakXP 5 points

The overall skin author winners were:

#1 Grayhaze with his 5 gold medals goes home with over $1000 in cash and prizes.

#2 Hippy who goes home with about $500 in cash plus prizes.

#3 Treetog who just missed second place by a couple of points and goes home with about $400 in cash/prizes.

Thanks to their support, the skin sites won over $2500 in cash to help pay bandwidth, upgrade hardware, etc.

deviantART led with $918 in cash.

VelocityART actually came in second in cash winnings with $725.

LotsOfSkins was third in cash with $706.

The other sits took home about $350.

Congratulations!

Tomorrow we'll announce the overall winners (site and author) of the GUI Olympics, give a preview of the summer GUI Olympics and announce the 5 WindowBlinds-specific awards (not officially part of the GUI Olympics).

In the meantime, we would like to thank you all for visiting. And we'd like to especially thank the dozens of GUI designers (skin authors) to created some of the best visual styles ever seen ever.

We'd also like to thank the participating sites as well as many other sites who helped make the GUI Olympics a big success. It's been a heck of a lot of fun!

Congratulations to everyone who entered.

The GUI Olympics finished its last event and the gold, silver and bronze medals for the best overall visual style created for the GUI Olympics were announced...

Well go over there and look!

As we begin to look forward to the Summer GUI Olympics, we're reminded that cool stuff is coming out for skinners! At the top of that list is Winamp3 from Nullsoft.

We talked to Nullsoft about Winamp3, the Microsoft challenge, and the Summer GUI Olympics.

And the winner of the best overall skin created for the GUI Olympics is...