vb Style WIP

Hi i need suggestions and feedback in vB style

I love where you're going with this so far... First suggestion that comes to mind is to go a bit darker in the gray areas, they're not popping like they seem that they should but I dig the orange and checker style a lot. Perhaps throw some glass effects into there, give the orange areas some shine, add a few more graphical elements to the header. I do like the way you're designing that though.

Boardmarkers are far too big. Go no bigger than 30x30 in size otherwise they take up way too much room. The top row of tabs just ends and looks odd, there's no symmetry to the header - the tabs so large make it look ungainly.

The white text is hard to read against the yellow. The bottom yellow line on the categories, who's online, etc is too short and again looks off.

The yellow would look better with a softer shine - not so hard so either lighter or starting at more a midway point.

On a plus note - with changes the conccept will work well.

There's white text there? Wow, I don't even see it at all, in that case most definatly change that, it's invisible on my monitor. Also, the swoosh where the checkerboard is, the left side where you have it arced, I'd try to shore that up a bit, it looks a tad rough, try to smooth that out a bit. By that I mean the overall shape, notice how it's not quite a smooth arc but rather a bit odd? It doesn't flow right.

Yes, there's white text on the navbar and on the category headers... hard to see lol

I see the white text on the orange, but if you mean anywhere else, nope, can't see it.

i would put the live demo but im not gonna buy another vbulletin liscense, this is from a friends forum, in wich i make skins for him so he lets me test them, but it really is a gaming forum, i just used photshop and cut the other categories, thats why i cant give you live demo T_T but currently im trying to pass this style to wtcbb to have a live demo