How does this design look?
 

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The category background is not ok, the text is not very readable.

i like your pixel streching at the top, but everything else feels a bit clashing and crowded, WinXP buttons are horrible

Category text is very hard to read. Other then that, nice blue collection.

*Homer-style scream* Category BGs are all screwed up...

Its a bit crampted :(

Maybe you should try valigning(isn't that it? I can't remember sometimes =\) to the top with the text in the category. The blue buttons don't look good with the defualt style, also they look kind of ugly IMO. Everything is a little crowded, a little too many hacks on the forum home display =\ I like the style colors though. The postbit is on defualt ::coughawfulcough::. User profile is on defualt. Everything in the forum describtions are a little too spread out taking up a too much room. The header I don't like much since the image is used as a background and the text over it just looks annoying IMO. I don't really like it lol.

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