Valentine's Day Themes for S60 3rd Edition
Published by krisse at 9:55 UTC, February 13th 2008
As it's Valentine's Day, All About Symbian presents a small selection of appropriate themes.
As Valentine's Day is today, the 14th of February, AAS has decided to showcase some themes to go with the day.
If you search for the word "love" on any theme web site you will be flooded with results (you don't say! - Ed). We didn't have the time or the space to cover them all, so we've tried to pick the most tasteful and practical of these themes. Most of the themes we tried didn't make it into the article as they didn't work properly for some reason, such as using the wrong colour font or having an expired certificate.
If you need help with installing S60 3rd Edition themes, take a look at this tutorial over on the Nokia Duck blog.
To go to the download page for a theme, just click on its title or screenshots.
Krisse, AllAboutSymbian, 14 Feb 2008
Categories: How To, Comment, Software
Platforms: S60 3rd Edition
Feature Discussion
malerocks
Who is this 'Ed' you keep referring to in your articles?
krisse
Malerocks, it's a common thing in British newspapers to have comments inserted into an article by the editor, or "ed". As in this case, it's normally only done to add a bit of humour.
davidmaxwaterma
I tried two of them and they both looked kind of crap on my e90's internal screen. Do any of them work on e90?
Max.
Max.
krisse
Davidmaxwaterma, I don't know, I don't have an E90 so I couldn't test them. The problem is the E90's internal screen isn't even close to being a standard size, so very few themes are designed with its resolution in mind.
The vast majority of S60 3rd Edition themes are designed for vertical/portrait QVGA screens, which is what I tested these themes on (as you can see from the screenshots I took).
The vast majority of S60 3rd Edition themes are designed for vertical/portrait QVGA screens, which is what I tested these themes on (as you can see from the screenshots I took).
slitchfield
Themes built around SVG (i.e. vector graphics) will scale brilliantly to any screen. I suspect these specialist love themes were built around QVGA bitmaps.... 8-)
Don't worry, I've got a separate E90 theme piece coming up soon for you to enjoy!
Don't worry, I've got a separate E90 theme piece coming up soon for you to enjoy!
davidmaxwaterma
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Originally Posted by krisse
Davidmaxwaterma, I don't know, I don't have an E90 so I couldn't test them. The problem is the E90's internal screen isn't even close to being a standard size, so very few themes are designed with its resolution in mind.
The vast majority of S60 3rd Edition themes are designed for vertical/portrait QVGA screens, which is what I tested these themes on (as you can see from the screenshots I took). |
Fair enough, I guess :|
davidmaxwaterma
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Originally Posted by slitchfield
Themes built around SVG (i.e. vector graphics) will scale brilliantly to any screen. I suspect these specialist love themes were built around QVGA bitmaps.... 8-)
Don't worry, I've got a separate E90 theme piece coming up soon for you to enjoy! |
Having played a little more, I see that most of the icons etc work ok, I think. It's really the backgrounds that are stretched and don't look too good.
Look forward to the E90-specific piece :)
Thanks!
Max.
Williamoni
Yuk, yuk and a hundred times yuk!
krisse
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We can't complain too much about the quality because we haven't really paid for it in any way.
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davidmaxwaterma
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Bear in mind these themes aren't made by Nokia employees or other professionals, they're mostly just amateurs giving stuff away for free as a bit of fun.
We can't complain too much about the quality because we haven't really paid for it in any way. |
...but you said, 'too much' so I guess we agree :)
AGirlReader
Very nice - thanks for finding these themes :) The first and the third both look very nice on the N82.
adonisdemon
@davidmaxwaterma - Sorry mate but your wrong, they are uploaded for FREE and were created using Mobile9's Online Theme Creator by members (excluding Babinokia's Theme). No revenue, advertising is gained from these. So I think we should be just happy we have some themes for Valentines.
Also pointing out, these were all made using JPG / PNG / BMP and not SVG, we haven't implemented SVG support yet.
If you want a few more "pro" looking themes made using Nokia's Theme Maker I have created a post with a few quality collection. Although these take longer and require some skill in graphics to achieve.
Post can be found here
adonisdemon
Mobile9
Also pointing out, these were all made using JPG / PNG / BMP and not SVG, we haven't implemented SVG support yet.
If you want a few more "pro" looking themes made using Nokia's Theme Maker I have created a post with a few quality collection. Although these take longer and require some skill in graphics to achieve.
Post can be found here
adonisdemon
Mobile9
davidmaxwaterma
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@davidmaxwaterma - Sorry mate but your wrong,
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I was referring specifically to the 'If you like my Themes, please consider donating' image on the first theme 'Forever Lies', not to mention all the 'Ads by Google' down the right hand side of the page.
But, whatever...
adonisdemon
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Originally Posted by davidmaxwaterma
What is my wrong when it's at home? :p
I was referring specifically to the 'If you like my Themes, please consider donating' image on the first theme 'Forever Lies', not to mention all the 'Ads by Google' down the right hand side of the page. But, whatever... |
Confusion in communication.