I like the way you did the color blocks on the start panel I'm really looking forward to watching this develop.

Dude!  You rock!  I like the way this is looking! It will be a great addition to my suite of skins!!    

This looks great   But i'm not sure about the close/min/max buttons and their colors

Thanks everybody!

Ok, then what would you suggest?

The Start menu is great. My only concern is that you're going to spoil him.

I would suggest the gray buttons like in my DX and maybe those colors on mouse over.  

For the min/max/close buttons i would suggest making them dark grey round buttons, and on mouse over they should get a second circle around them just like the way the start button looks but instead of the win flag they should have - ,x, square sign.

How's this?

Deea, I will consider it; however, I do happen to like the small splash of colors--it adds.

OOOOOO, I like that Brian! 

My first reply was about the colored buttons, but hey, this is your blind. I'll reserve judgement on the colors until you get further along, who knows what your magic will bring to this skin!! 

Hey Jim, I'm slightly perplexed about the taskbar buttons. I don't like the way they're shaping up as per the original design. Seems like icons want to hang out, and things just aren't looking right.

I tried a grey button alternative. Let me know which you like better.

The upper half I guess. I like the lower buttons better, but if the icon is gonna hang off, then there isn't much choice, is there?

Kinda what I was thinking, Jim. I like the bottom half better, but the upper half works a lot better.

Another thing, is the mouse-over glow in W7. It wasn't showing up very well with a darker button. I've lightened it up some so that the glow can show through.

That works for me!