No easy answer Karen. I think JC would want you to finish it but that's up to you.

Wish I knew what else to say.

Finish it Karen and upload it. I will do some updating to the smx and upload it soon. Thank you very much for doing it.

OK, Ken.  Let me know if you want anything changed, and PM me with whatever email address you're using, if you didn't get the one I sent to your yahoo account.

I know you have a lot on your plate right now, and I totally understand how the pressures of an unsure future can make a person just want to throw everything away, and hide under a rock somewhere.  I hope things get better for you real soon. 

Ditto...

Uvah - check your PMs. 

JuniorCrooks - check your email.

It looks great to me Karen. I have not used it long but I don't see any issues.

Wearing it now. Love the mouse over effects. Very sharp. Just one minor issue. When you open task manager or windows with gray text on the tabs mousing over them makes the text hard to see. Its gray on gray. No biggie though. You could probably ignore it. Other than that you have a definite winner. I'll let it run for awhile.

I see what you mean about that Uvah. I especially notice it when playing with the colors. I have a tendency to like to darken things a little but that is just my own taste and not many would probably do it. Not something you need to change Karen unless you feel you should. Mine looks this way because I have the color set to grey and darkened it a little bit.

This is an example. Notice the text on the date and time settings window.

kaz......i didnt even know you were makin this! youve been hiding this from me.....tut tut......

looks brilliant, the only thing i would change would be the purple text on the stmenu, but your making it for JC, so i understand its probably what he wanted.

xxxxxx kitty.

Actually kitty I did not specify the color of the start menu text but I do not have a problem with it being purple only because it changes when you recolor the skin. I have recolored it blue and grey and each time the color of the text changed too. That is quite cool in my book because I have not noticed other blinds do that but perhaps I have not been observant enough.

Check this out. Did Karen nail it or what.

I'm going to play with font colors for a little bit and see if SkinStudio will let me fix this hard to read text thing.

Also, I made a tabbed dock to go with it:

You did -- check your reply #4.  If you want it a different color, let me know.

Oops, I guess I did. Like I said I am fine with the color because it recolors nicely. However if you think it would look better a different color then by all means change it. I am not being indecisive. I just trust your judgment Karen. You have done a bang up job with this.

I'm going to leave the text purple; like you said, it recolors well, plus it kind of breaks up the monochrome aspect of it.

I'm really grateful you gave me this opportunity to create this for you, Ken, and I'm really glad you like it!

RND - check you're PMs.

I found that the text in the recycle bin is missing where it say organize....empty recycle bin and restore. I don't know if anyone else noticed. I wanted to put up a screen shot but for some reason photobuckets page won't render correctly and I can't log in. Very slow response on every site today. Connections timing out. Problem loading page and not just here but at all the hotspots I use.

Which style is the text missing on, Uvah?  I have the text in both styles on my computer, but I have CCleaner configured to attach to the Recycle Bin, so maybe that's why the text is present. 

I'm still trying to get photobucket to work but its being a pain. Open the recycle bin. Under the header where you normally see organize....empty recycle bin....restore. The text is not there. When I mouse over all I get is the rectangle but no text. Once I get photobucket loaded correctly I'll put up a screenshot.

This is what I'm talking about. I had to change locations.

Got it!  Thanks...fixing it now.  It's not that way in the light version (or at least not on mine, but I've been putzin' with the fonts all day now...changed the some of the buttons and stuff on the light version -- still have a few days of working things out on this).

Tell you what. When this beauty is done I hope Philly is ready and  WG 'cause I smell.............SUITE.