sklxthemes.com is LIVE!

It's up, check it out. Download some themes for your Sidekick LX before it arrives. Or create your own.

So close...

We're so close to an official launch of www.sklxthemes.com! Before we do we have to check on a few things as well as make some minor upgrades to sk3themes.com. We've changed a couple of things with the user system. Nothing drastic and mostly behind the scenes stuff. We worked long and hard to make sure you guys could use one login for all of the theme sites. We also put in a field for you to tell everyone your website URL. It's not being displayed yet on sk3themes.com, but will show next to your name on sklxthemes.com on launch, and eventually on sk3themes.

Btw, most (if not all) of the new features you see on sklxthemes, you'll eventually see on sk3themes in the future.

RSS Feeds and Friendly URLs

Since we're working on the new sites with new features, we're occasionally sneaking in new stuff for www.sk3themes.com. Today we bring you RSS feeds. If you don't know what RSS feeds are, this video can help explain what's so great about them. If you are an RSS junkie like me, you'll know what to do.

http://www.sk3themes.com/feed (retrieves the most recent themes)
http://www.sk3themes.com/feed/artist/cnystrand (retrieves the most recent themes uploaded by an artist, in this case cnystrand)
http://www.sk3themes.com/feed/category/12 (retrieves the most recent themes uploaded to a certain category. This number can be found by clicking on the category on the main page and looking at the URL. This example grabs themes from the "Other" category)

There's also new friendly URLs to send to your friends:
http://www.sk3themes.com/artist/KittiesGoWoof - for a direct link to your themes, just replace put your username at the end instead of KittiesGoWoof's. :)

As always, let us know if you see anything acting weird, or if you have any suggestions on how we can make the theme sites better!

Sidekick Slide and Sidekick LX Themes

They found us out over on the poweredbydanger forums. We are indeed working on new sites for the new Sidekick devices, the Sidekick LX and Sidekick Slide. I'm hoping to have these sites ready in time for the launch of the new devices. So stay tuned. :)

Sidekick LX Themes
Sidekick Slide Themes

The long awaited Search feature

Due to a huge demand for this feature, we've snuck it into the current version of the site. Yes, that's right, you can now search for what theme you want. We've done preliminary testing with it and it seems to be running well, but we want to see it in action, so start using it! :) Let us know (admin [at] sk3themes.com) if you run into any problems, error messages, or unexpected behavior. Beta users, we expect you to hit this hard and make sure it doesn't break! Oh and theme uploaders, remember how we said you should describe your theme well? Now you have even more motivation to take 30 seconds to write a good description so people can find it amongst the 6,000+ themes!

Oh, and we also added a few more tweaks here and there to make things a little better behind the scenes. You probably won't notice those much, but the search engines will.

Looking for beta-testers

We're working on some major improvements to sk3themes.com to help you guys use it easier. We need some brave souls to test it out though. Nothing difficult, just use the top secret pages we send you and let us know if anything doesn't work right, any feedback you have, and basically if it sucks or if it's awesome. Right now we're looking for people that create and upload themes on sk3themes.com. If you're interested, drop an email to admin (at) sk3themes.com for more info!

Browse by Rating!

Remember how we added those little rating stars awhile back? Well now they're worth something since you can sort the themes based on their rating! So be sure to go vote for the themes you like (and the ones you don't like). To browse the highest rated themes, just select "Highest Rated" from the drop down at the top of the page or just click here. Who's theme is going to be on top? :)