Welcome to LS-Themes.org - Version 2

posted Dec. 06 2008 by THC4k under

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I can hardly belive it has been more than 3 years already since i launched LS-Themes.org. When i decided to make this website, Litestep.net had been down for months, Ls-Universe.info had no themes yet and i felt the Litestep community needed a place, dedicated only to Litestep, where themers could share their themes.

Looking back, i think the website turned out pretty well, due to the help of everyone who visited the site, submitted themes and screenshots or gave feedback and suggestions. The site itself also changed it's face over the years with all the great site schemes as well as every suggestion and bug report i recieved.

But the website always had technical problems - it was my first larger software project and i lacked almost any experience - and became constantly harder to work on at all. Finally, over the last few months, i found the time to write a new version with many of the features i was missing at the other Litestep websites.

So today, i am very proud to present to you: LS-Themes.org V2

Some guidelines and new features:

The modules section was generated from shellfront's module list. I wrote a program to extract descriptions from the modules docs, but not all modules have descriptions yet.
If you wrote a module, please visit it's page and "claim" it. Afterwards you can edit it's description and categorize it with tags.
The modules section is a NetLoadModule site too. You can use it with *Netloadmodulesite "http://www.ls-themes.org/modules/download/"
After logging in, you can manage your submission from the personal page.

So much for now ... take a look around, i hope you like it :-)

12 Comments

Acidfire wrote on December 07, 2008 at 20:46:

Good job man! This site feels really complete now. Just don't like the look much, but oh well, someone will come around and make a nice scheme.

So you decided the forum wasn't active enough to keep it running?

fractal.design wrote on December 08, 2008 at 23:40:

Nice work, I love the module descriptions!

But sorting themes doesnt work always: http://www.ls-themes.org/themes?order=comments&dir=d&tag=&kw=

I get a 500 error for that page :/

It's also really neat having the irc logs up here :)

jugg wrote on December 11, 2008 at 00:49:

looks good. When claiming ownership of a module, what happens? The link just changes to "..." and nothing else occurs. The modules arne't listed on "my page", nor can I see any other effect. Later going back to the page, it again has the "claim module" link. You are still working on this functionality I guess?

THC4k wrote on December 11, 2008 at 02:31:

Nice to hear that you like it :-) I fixed both bugs, i should really write more tests ... sorry for the inconvinience ;-)

Vill wrote on January 05, 2009 at 02:45:

Finaly another solid themes/screens site. Keep Steppin!

ognkov wrote on January 05, 2009 at 11:05:

why only modules author can tag modules?

THC4k wrote on January 07, 2009 at 15:49:

I didnt think many people would be interested in tagging modules. As far as i've looked through the modules, most are pretty obsolete these days anyways and i wonder how i should handle them.

starletzzang wrote on January 18, 2009 at 01:35:

e107?

issandre wrote on February 03, 2009 at 02:35:

"I didnt think many people would be interested in tagging modules. As far as i've looked through the modules, most are pretty obsolete these days anyways and i wonder how i should handle them."

Maybe for one or two interesting modules if that might help. (you maybe can accept mails with formated doc + module archive and argumentation on the interest of the submitted module)

LS-Themes.org - Version 2 is nice ! Thank you THC4K :)

mulestem wrote on March 30, 2009 at 18:55:

is there any way you can import the theme data base from litestep.net? all other sites are lacking in that department severely! according to the splash page they have the theme library on back up.

THC4k wrote on March 31, 2009 at 21:19:

Usually litestep.net comes back after a few months of downtime ;-) But yeah, it's been a while, maybe its different this time. Technically importing the themes should be possible, but I'd need a bigger server ;-)

mulestem wrote on April 01, 2009 at 23:35:

ya, herd dat about the bigger server! wonder how many gigs makes up that library?

anyway im glad there are still sites around that keep litestep going, my hats off to you sir! (or however they say it)

im thinking about importing some of my themes here, what you think?

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