[setishock]

Ok then not to be a butt about it, but why do forums have to be in the center of the screen? Why not dare to do something that's different?

The forum in the center is so ho hum mainstream. The main reason the forum is offset to the left is to show off the catgirl in the background. And yeah yeah I've heard making the background too eye catching is bad. But is it really? I don't think so. The forum set up like that is going to make you stop and look at the overall layout. I mean if you look through the captioned pics I do you'll real quick find out my perspective is somewhat skewed. I try different things. They work, they stay. They don't, they go.

As for the quaility of the background image, maybe you're right. It needs to be a higher quaility image. Finding those is hit and miss. I used what I could find. Maybe if I was to run it back through a image manipulator program I could clean it up a bit. I think what really happened to it was the result of being resized and the jpeg quaility being reduced to save server space.

As for the rest since the xml download appears to not have saved everything I'm having to go back and do it over in some spots. I'm going to be trying some things this time a bit differently.