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Do not post here with just negative comments, at least tell me how i can improve it constructively and i will, if i can.

As soon as the exclusive concept art of the new MSN Wave-11 was posted on front page, I knew that i had to look, once i saw it, i was mixed between "EEW BLOAT!" and "OH MY GOD, WONDERFUL"

This is because, the actual MSN program seemed bloated, but they had a nice UI.

So, I decided to quickly put together a little mockup of MSN 8, but not with all the bloat, its like MSN7, with a new look.

Here it is:

Latest version (07-December-2004, 22:07 GMT)

MSN-Messenger-8-v3-r1-both.gif

Credits are on the image.

This took roughly an hour but that mostly involved me listening to music mindlessly,

Alot of the graphics, like the butterfly in top corner and background are actually vectored by me by hand.

note to a friend: paulsachang, rofl. pandas r us. thanks for the comments on it when i was making it, also varsity, thanks for the comments on it too:)

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Grand Master

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Xen, i put the banner there for realism, we will never be fully gone of those crap banners, but if i do code it, i might leave it out (may need to leave it in tho)

and asmit,

no the grey isnt part of it, so yeah there are rounded edges, look at the top:)

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wow thanks for all the posetive feedback:D

if anyone wants to code a skin or something, i can help for the gfx, i mean any skin (if its a nice concept), not just this.

i will probably be doing a few more, but not untill friday at least.

from now till thursday i have important coursework to do for my english GCSE :(

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