im trying to get the ring around the menu tabs and the part behind the buttons as well they are there on the green dash skin but not on the blue can anyone try help meout? ive tryed mixing and everything i took my background and stuck it in the green dash and change my colours back to blue but still no go is there something here that im missing?

Why not pop into our irc channel .. we have loads of expert skinners in there waiting to answer your questions

our channel is on EFnet and the channel is #blackstormx

if you have problems setting irc up we have a java irc client on the site or in our tutorials section we have a easy irc setup guide

Hope the guys can help

sorry not enough information i think i must have been drunk when i posted? but anyways i get what it was i had missing fixed it up and its good to go the other thing about the skinning that is the only thing i dont get right now is the colour patcher it does not really want to work with me here i make a skin preset and then install it to the right folder then the dash does not want to load do i need to rename my blackstormx.xbe back to the original name i have it under the name thclite.xbe because with all the updates and things fixing a dual bios can get tiresome but yeah il pop in your channel see whats up and about the picture thing i understand now how crappy free hosting is soon as me and my friends web design site gets up with our server etc, il be able to really do things!