Looks nice, try and make the shadow less dark. What is Xara some image editing app?It WAS a tad heavy, but I wasn't sure how a lighter one would look on the gray FC background using a transparent GIF. The Xara background was white. When I decreased the shadow, it had white fringing caused by the blurred edges of the shadow being lighter than the grays used by FC.
It's a learning curve.
I replaced it with an amended version using a gray (#F0F0F0) background, the color used by FC in White Default mode, rather than a transparent GIF. Thus it will have a backgound different from FC's for Patriot et al. A transparent GIF version is below, minus the shadow, for comparison.
<center><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/X-DD.gif" /></center>
The one problem with transparent GIFs is the 256-color limit. I could use transparent PNGs, but IE cannot display them properly, and Mickeysoft seems uninterested in correcting that.
I bought Xara 3D6 last week ($45 bucks well spent). It a hoot to experiment with when I have free time.