Creating Themes For N73 And Other S60 3rd Edition Smartphones

I was really busy in the last few days because I looked for the perfect software to create my own theme. I’ve found a few good ones but Carbide UI was the best of all because it’s a really complex software so you can change a lot of things. I especially liked the way you can change the icons in your menu because the default ones don’t look really good.

After I’ve spent a few hours checking out the software, I had to admit that it’s not perfect and it has a few bugs. For example all my sub-menus went black even if I made them white so I couldn’t see the text in my sub-menus. In the preview provided by the application these looked perfect, but on the phone things were awful. Whatever… I tried looking for another software and I came across a site where you can create your theme and you can as-well use other themes as templates.

The Ownskin.com site theme creator was basically the same as the Carbide UI but there weren’t any bugs like the ones Carbide had. So I created 2 themes and even if these turned out rather imperfect they are good for the first try. If you have time you can try too but you have to sign up.

Here’s my first theme:

This is how it is shown on the site and don’t mind searching for it because I’ve put it in private mode so you can’t see it without my permission.

Why? Because it is not ready yet and I don’t want to take credit for something that is not perfect. If you don’t need it to be perfect, just submit a comment and I’ll send it to you on e-mail.

The icons I used were from the net but in the following skin I used my own. There are some bugs but the theme is usable.

I will try to make some other themes too and on the way I will figure out ways to make themes with as few bugs as I can.

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Here’s my second theme:

This looks way better and has less bugs. One of the bugs is that the music player text is white so you can’t really see anything but I will work on that in the next few days.

Anyway, the icons are made by me. It wasn’t really hard really but it did take some time until I drew the icons and transformed them in .png format because that’s the only way to make the icons transparent, or the only simple way I know of :)

If you want this one just submit a comment, or wait until I make it better and it appears on the site. I’m working on a black version of the handwritten one with black background and white icons but I don’t know when I’ll finish.