I'll have to side with cambert here. If you use a noun as an adjective it must be singular. So you'd have artists' community artistic community artist community In the same way you can have dog kennel, or dogs' kennel, or dog's kennel but not dogs kennel :)

I've noticed at least half a dozen banner ads here with blatant spelling errors. OK, if you're typing in a forum then it doesn't really matter, but if you're selling a product you'd think you'd take 20 seconds to look up the word in a - er - dikshonri.

"We keep the default colors as you see above, but let members select their background and text colors." Fine by me, but please can we have a single-pixel black border around the image thumbs, like in the example.

I don't know, what is the world coming to? I went to get a newspaper this morning and the guy had changed it so the newspapers are now on the right, not the left. Well, you can imagine my dismay. I just walked in and I couldn't believe it. It was the first I'd heard about such a drastic reorganisation. No consultation, no nothing. So I said to him, I said, what's all this about? Changing things the hell and all around? Don't you know that when I look suddenly to the right I sometimes become vapourous and fall to the ground in a semi-faint? Had he bothered to check my medical history? Had he heck! And right-swivel comatose predilictions aside, I am so used to reaching for the newspaper with my left hand that I'm sure my left hand will grab instictively and uncontrollably at the sight of the newspapers, thus flailing across the centre aisle and impacting the biscuit display, causing heaven knows what carnage. Fair enough, things need to change, I can accept that, but making such blatently retrograde reorganisations without so much as an please and a thankyou leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. And all in the name of progress. Pah! Needless to say, I refused to purchase any of his ridiculously positioned newspapers and returned home empty-handed but morally victorious.

BTW - Believe it or not, that's the same font on each one. Look how naff the white on black is! (It's not the JPG compression either!)

Pass on my best wishes, if you'd be so kind. Freeze were some of the first to ever comment on my images when I was a very new here, and gave me loads of encouragement.

But if you do look at the best looking art sites around (digitalart, epilogue, GFXartist) most have light backgrounds and none (that I know of) allow for colour changes - that's just retro stuff to make up for lacklustre design. As for light background straining the eye - Microsoft Word anybody? Let's face it, much as I like the site functionality at the moment, the design is very dated. Improvements have been suggested and I think that they look great. OK, not as good as some sites, but I prefer a fast load rather than flash graphics. Other people disagree, which is fine, but all this bitching and griping and threats to leave? Rendo is THE most spoiled community on the web, that's for sure! :) But please, whatever happens, don't have a poll! Look what happened to the last one... Actually, what DID happen to the last one? Don't think we've forgotten about it.

Gah - white! leaving instantly! poo! horror, ARTmageddon, the end of all things!!!!!! Just kidding. I like it. My only suggestion is that the gallery images are bordered by a thin black line (as at http://www.epilogue.net - I'm sure this had some influence anyway, no? ;) ). I think the thumbs will stand out more than they do against black. Black is old and it's amateurish, good riddance to black! ;)

"...ad agencies..." Maybe one day... :) I can still dream... ~~~~(:]

kromekat - I think you hit the nail on the head; for some reason, people think if you enjoy doing something then you shouldn't get paid for it, and you'll give your time away for free. In my previous job I spent many years working with, and recruiting / managing, IT contractors and staff. The average contract pay was between 40 and 65 per hour, with one as high as 85. Without exception, the skills these guys had could be learned by practically anybody within 18 months. The company, of course, had to make a profit with these guys, so they charged well over 1,000 per day for their time. In other words, customers thought nothing of paying 3,000 - 5,000 for a simple, 3 day job... or 1,000 for a single hour-long meeting with the team... ...but take a different field, like art, where the artist is required to have vastly more talent and experience than an IT worker, and the very same people who'll think nothing of contracting teams at thousands per day will gape in outrage at the idea of an artist asking for 200 for a week's work. It must mean I love art a lot when all this STILL doesn't prevent me from wanting to become a professional artist!!! :)

This time it will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine... you have to think positive or you don't get anywhere ;)

"Work = Money" Try telling that to my customers, the bunch of tight-arse gits. "Oooh, 60 for a logo, I only want a small one!"... "What? You want extra just because I changed all my requirements after you'd done 99% of the work?"... "How come you don't do web hosting for free; Freeserve do!"..."How petty, you're going to charge me because I ring you 3 times a day every day for hours at a time for advice about everything from setting up e-mail to downloading on Kazaa to the effects of throwing cups of fucking coffee into the fucking monitor !&^"*!!!!!!" Sorry, just posted on epilogue about this and I need to... calm... down... :)

"What is difference in nude and gore?" Ed Gein had trouble with this one too... ;)

Very true. It's sort of the opposite of raph.com, where any hint of postwork will get your stuff thrown out! Sometimes you just can't win! :)