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Hello everyone!

Symbian Themes is being upgraded to Iteration 2! This will be a complete new look for the web site, with great new features.

Iteration 1 was launched on February 1st 2004. As the site has grown enormously (hosting over 4000 themes now!), the design became impractical. Therefore it's been completely redesigned. Everything has changed, including the site logo, colour scheme, site design and code!

As always, however, Symbian Themes remains free. One feature of Iteration 2 will be membership accounts. This is optional for both downloading and uploading. However, by becoming a member, you have access to extra functions, such as a forum system, the ability to enable/disable adult content themes, and private messaging. With the exception of a forum (albeit very basic), none of these features were available in Iteration 1. Other features include 'theme of the day', where one theme is randomly selected each day and is displayed on the home page. A comments system (originally planned for Iteration 1 but cancelled due to incompatibilities with some code) for each theme/wallpaper/operator logo/smartlauncher skin is also now present.

All coding of Iteration 2 has not yet been fully completed. It has been built from the ground up. The reason you are seeing this page is because a lot of traffic has been used for Iteration 1, and so it has been taken offline in order to conserve bandwidth (in 10 days, over 1.1 TB (yes, terabytes) of bandwidth was used).

There is no set date for the launch of Iteration 2. Note: To use Iteration 2 optimally, your monitor resolution must be set to at least 1024x768 pixels. Lower resolutions such as 800x600 and 640x480 just won't cut it.

The standard of themes will also be greatly improved. Don't be surprised to see themes that were very basic (i.e. 'get a wallpaper, stick it onto the work and call it a theme') be removed.

In the meantime, if you have any questions, queries, criticisms or comments, feel free to e-mail me at the usual address ([email protected]).

Cheers
- jw