It's also a matter of taste, Bubble

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lot of people love the style (see Amaranth above me - I've just changed the font to a lighter one, which looks awful lol but I don't have time right now to fix it - dinner time

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But a lot of people don't and the site needs to cater for everyone. Originally there was going to be one dark and one light style to suit both worlds - but while working on a few styles lately, I decided that a midtone one would be the best way forward.
One of the main reasons behind the dark style (apart from the fact I LIKE dark styles <grin>) is that on research the majority of sites who offer graphics, etc all are dark and *shudders* green (not my favourite colour!) so I made the mistake of going down that path.
I have to reiterate that shelley did a great job on the style, but must also state that although I told her what colours I liked, that was basically my sole input into the graphics side of the style - I simply coded it. Now, however I do both graphics and code (along with my business-parter, Ken who, I have to say, knows more about coding styles for vb than I could learn in a lifetime

) so the new style, which may take a week or two, will be something special