[ShawnV]

Hi Shelley! /wave

I reviewed your style a little over 6 months ago and see no differences since my last review.

It’s been a while, actually allot has changed from the last version, mostly removed all of the table graphics and went transparent for the next flash upgrade that’s in design, the header, footer, background and allot of the other icons are new and some other stuff that is easy to miss.

Just to re-cap (and be brief) I think the style looks great. I'm not to sure about the lengthy flash intro although the option is there for people to skip this even though the flash integrated throughout the site looks excellent.

There is also a Skip intro tab on the KOWW splash badge so you don't even have to load the intro movie; however I am thinking I need to make it stand out more since it seems to get missed easily.

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Normally (like youself) I haven't got a problem in designing and applying large icons. Though I have to say the forum status icons are a little to big. 72 px width by 66px is a little on the large side and I would set a maximum of 50px square for forum status icons. Regardless of that, they have been designed nicely and complement the style very well.

Yeah, I really tried 50px but with the animation that’s as small as I could bring myself to using, hence why the smaller forum display icons only have the (fire) animation for hot topic.

In my last review I'm almost sure that I commented on the collapse icons and I'm sure these are different from the ones I seen before but there's still room (visually) for improvement. Normally, for the average person I would let this one go but your talents warrant for something visually more eye pleasing.

Oh yeah, those were test icons, I meant to get around to changing them and forgot, thanks for catching those....yet again, they are fixed now.

The lastpost arrow within the icon could do with being a little more prominent. I know what the icon conveys but I just think that icons within an image should show their prominence where necessary.

Hum, I will have to fiddle with those and see if I can make the arrow more striking.

Overall, the style looks visually great. I've always been a fan of your style and see no reason for that to change in this review though I will say that several grievances I mentioned above should be addressed.

Good work and goodluck

As always, thanks so much for your help and talents, just the stuff I was looking for in this thread, cheers.

_V