Editing Your Userlookup 1. The Basics To create a nice aesthetic userlookup you'll need decent knowledge of html and css. You'll also need to know how to manipulate images in some sort of photo editor (i.g. Photoshop). For those new to html and css, visit W3 Schools. It has wonderful tutorials and it's great for reference for when you forget and put something like strikethrough instead of line-through. As for photoshop, I find that you can pick up most of the basic skills by just playing around on it. For more advance manipulations, I find pootato.org pretty useful for both photoshop and webdesign. 2. Filtering Out The Icky A simple way of filtering out everything (sidebar, topbar, copyrights/privacy policy, side ad, etc.)... Code (Text): <style> #ban, #m, #ald,#mb,#ad,#ol, .hdr,.sf,#n {display:none;} table,td {background:none;} </style> 3. Aesthetics The Good -planning -color theme -layout theme -easily visible text -browser compatibility The Bad -layout designed for only one brower -layout designed for only one resolution -tiny font -broken links -image hosting with bandwidth limit -unclean code The Ugly -flash animation -bright contrasting colors -music -repeated (though untiled) backgrounds -overall messyness 4. Div Layers Div layers are easy to use and they look nice when used properly. Just don't forget to put a z-index on it when you have multiples. Otherwise you might end up with not what you expected. I will add more to this another time...if you have question either PM me or post them