I see Mickeblue's site is sporting some artistic upgrades a la Ryan Lacdao style, to which I say:

Kudos!

The updated look is nice!

Well that's very kind of you Rich... and yes the influence screams at you doesn't it?... but hey "good for him is grand for me" 

Lost my hard drive a couple of weeks ago, and since I hadn't backed up everything it gave me the opportunity to rethink a few things, rather than just duplicate the existing graphics. 

Mickeblue, you've got great style

Sorry to hear 'bout the hard-drive crash: you have our condolensces.  Hopefully your backups are quick and true and nothing significant was lost.

just took time to have a look on it......really excellent Micke!! should take a tour another day to have a best view on it, but still nice work bud

Thank you both.... but I have to be honest here... I'm a feckin' sham... the only things I ever skinned were "Aston" and "Coolplayer"... and it didn't take much to skin either of those... DID IT!

Unfortunately I find myself using a sweet little "msstyles" piece of work... but I'm not prepared to buy Stardocks software to compete with this style.... SHAME ON ME !

I'm 52, and I live with a Lady who has a terminal illness, my days on  the skinning front are inevitably limited...

I should point out that using a computer has been made that much better ( easier ) by folks who took the time to present fun., affordable, user friendly GUI's... "pat ypuselves on the back... Nerio & Rich"

I hear you on the limited time for skinning bit.  As we're getting older, it seems like there's a decreasing amount of time that I can dedicate to skinning projects.

Stardock makes great software - WindowBlinds does what it does better than anything else in the realm, but I refuse to purchase anything from them anymore.  Call it a battle of ideals, but I prefer to support options not backed by Brad Wardell/FrogBoy/Draginol

Keep up the good work, though!  I'm always pleased to see what you guys are workin' on

as i already said in the past....skinning give me a lot of fun and new friends, and better then all, a new familly! wich most of peoples cant find that easy way!!

the truth is that as we get older, we turn to the most important things in real life, we cant get fun in skinning the rest of our life, till we make a firm like stardock ......but we keep trying to have 5min a day to have a look on that

as for me, the first case, is my memory stick .......completly out of date, and should be replaced asap by a 1Gb memory stick LOL

Yeah micke your website new look is totaly cool