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Old 10-05-2007, 09:30 PM
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I quite like the look of your style. For some parts, it's clean and simple and looks tidy though I have a few grievances that bother me when it comes to the visual side.

The forum status Icons look a little tacky and don't go very well with the whole look. infact, it's a little distracting due to the inconsistency it oozes. Keep it simple, like the rest of the style, afterall, icons and other such forum images can spoil a style and that's what I feel the forum Icons are doing.

The collapse icons could do with being a little more prominent. Give them some kind of transparent area with a bevel or some kind of indent. Whilst on that .tcat area, I would remove that image on the left side of the .tcat gradient due to it looking very taccy and incorrectly saved (white matte showing around the edges).

Looking at the images in the "what's going on" area one word springs to mind... "gigantic". The image looks terribly jaggy and doesn't do any justice in the visual improvement side not to mention they are far to big.

Looking into the postbit, buttons are hard to see and I would suggest that you inject some life into creating a visually more prominent set of buttons which would give off a nice feel in the postbit area.

Don't get me wrong I like the style (or atleast parts of it) and with some time and a little effort you could dramatically improve the whole look of the style by spending a liittle time thinking about what would look better than what you have.

Ensure that you check images for white matting showing around the edges (I noticed some) . you should re-creating the images and save them as the background colour they are being applied onto.
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