My turn for an opinion

What do you think, too cheesy?

Nah, it looks cool.

Sleek!, really nice, I love it!

Ohhh what a cliff hanger… I can’t wait to see the whole template

Looks cool, subtle use of drop shadows….

... which reminds me I really really gotta get one of these:

Guess it’ll be a magazine/blog theme?

cheesy?! Now way man it look awsome

Looks great. Nothing cheesy.

I’m little concerned about legibility of gray on black with CRT monitors. I am sure there is a round circle around that green logo. But I can hardly see that. When I save this picture and increase brightness in Photoshop, only then I am able to see that circle and the hover effect on Home Link. This happens with most of our dark themes made on TFT or laptop monitors. I do not know which monitor you are using.

Same happens with light shades made on CRT monitor. They are not visible on TFT screens. Just wanna give you a constructive suggestion for testing the colors on an old bulky CRT monitor too.

Currently, I am viewing this image on a CRT Flatron monitor. It’s brightness is set to default. And apart from this monitor/color issue, this design is sleek

Looks really good man! Nothing cheezy about that Only thing I would suggest is to play a little more with logo gradient, looks a bit “default” now.

@digitalimpact Cool T-shirt, love it, so nerdy (I got bday tomorrow, you can buy me one of those :P)

I think it looks good.. show some more ?

@digitalimpact that shirt rox !

Thanks everybody.

@Di – Nice shirt, I want one too.

@SaurabhSharma – I’m still playing with it so I’m sure the brightness contrast will change quite a bit. Plus light and dark versions.

@_freshface – I agree, that’s just a first draft and I’m a bit of a perfectionist so I’m sure it will change. Btw, Happy Birthday!

I was inspired yesterday after seeing something another designer was working on and since there are a lack of gaming templates on TF I thought I would give that a try and work in some new features and go a little crazy.