ok how about the letter R?

how about the stuff in the folder itself. you could a littl more color to some of them or you could actuallly bring them out more of their folders...

what everyone has said sofar is correct imo. also see if you can increase the size ofthe font a little and off to one side like you have there. its a nice effect.

nicely done....one thing. the top of your forum between the arrows and the city. it seems to me to be curved down ever so slightly...it might look better straighten out...

also the border around your forum the edges barely show but they are visible see if yo can round them out....

it's def. an improvement over the changing text color. Yet, it lacks definition.
very boring in a sense that it just black and white.

the capital letters in the sig are O, B, and D which to me it sounds like obsessive design which is a neat idea but this totally lacks anything like that.
remember its the details in which you rely on to grab you customer base.

background color
use a larger serif font for the title(give a look of a pro. imo)
use a san serif font for the flash words.

i like the color scheme. beige and maroon are great together and the gold accent's are a nice touch to blend the two together. the lines are a distraction tho.

a way you could fix it is by putting the lines in a different way like in the background going off in different directions and fading toward the middle of the background. you could add them as a separator between categories and such.

another idea is perhaps getting rid of the rounded cornors and putting it as uneven lines intersecting each other.

good luck

the color scheme is fine for a simplistic forum. tho...the background doesn't seem to "melt" into the background behind the forum categories. if you could somhow fix that it would feel different with out really changing anything.

Zell denver's sig. is a very nice example of color to color gradient.

but on the topic of the wheel. very nice for your first time


Black and Blue are a very hard color choice to mix when not using a gradient. espically when it comes to computer colors. *imo they are much stronger then the real life counterparts.* if you want a blue to "pop" against the black add a little purple to the blue and tone up your black to a very dark grey. then see if you can blend a gradient of the font blue and the background balck and outline the font in a middle of the gradient color.

hopefully that makes sense....

amazing work on all of them but out of the 4 id pick no.1, i think thats the best. it give you the "very professional, yet, i can still have fun look."

im giving you a 4/5 because i know that your not done. imo tho, its too bright for my taste. if you could include some mirror butons i a shade of blue darker then the background but just as bright i think that would add some nice contrast to the forum.

nice color scheme i would use them. i like the detail of whats inside the folder while retaining that uniform look of the folder system.

personally i can't do what you do with flash...cause your amazing. the only problem is for me its the timing of the flash itself. you have the blue and red flash at the same time is there anyway to layer the flash to have the timing of the spin of the light differ from its brother....don't know if that made sense.

your timing... -----idea timing
[x x x] [x x x]-----[x x x]---- [x x x]
[2 1 2] [1 2 1]----[1 2 1.25] [1 1.5 2]

just an idea...i know that your busy right now. its just an idea for later..

hopefully i did a pretty good job on this... at least i like it

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i tried doing a picture but so far it won't let me...