First.... if you are real good with graphics.. send me a Private Message !!  I have some ideas I would like to discuss.

Second.....  We need some images for our reviews and articles.   I would like to have one that is a set for "buy" and "rent" so we can include the picture in the review letting readers know what we reccomend.

Third... Medals.  Would like to have Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze medals for end of the year "Overall Rankings" or "Editor Choice Awards" kind of badge.  

www.steelseries.com/us/products/mice/ikari_laser/reviews

If you look on this page in the bottom left there are a bunch of badges from other websites that are a good example of what I am looking for.

Feedback is appreciated.

forgot to mention... would also like to come up with a mascot for the website.  ideas?

mine was an old school gaming controller as a cartoon character.  my wife suggested a gamer with a controller in hand....

Per our conversation, I’ll look into the graphics and get back with you....

cool... so far good responses from Fear, Knight, and Kilgore.

Fear and I were discussing the mascot idea a bit last night (or this morning, I suppose), and we were leaning more towards your idea, Game. We were thinking something along the lines of having a sort of spazzy, ADHD sort of kid whailing on the sticks and buttons of an arcade machine, or an arcade style controller (like with fighting games, and what not). It allows for a good representation of the mascot, without having to bother with specific controller brands/designs and what not, and would probably be simpler to create.

nice Forlorn.... thats kind of the direction I was going also.... your description is right on target to what I was thinking.  I even thought of a shirt we could later design with a take of the old "You can have my gun when you pry it from my fingers..."  course it is cold dead fingers... but not sure if that is pc or not.

Isn’t that the quote from Charlton Heston’s famous NRA speech? Here it is:  http://americanconservativeparty.org/?q=node/668

Actually it was a bumper sticker I saw in the 1984 movie Red Dawn.   In a early scene when the town is attacked they show a guy dead next to his truck with a pistol still in his hand.  The camera pans to an Russian taking the gun from his hand with the bumper sticker in the background.

Okay... with a lot of searching...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_my_cold%2C_dead_hands

Okay... thought about it a lot last night and I like Forlorn and Fear’s idea.  It fits everything I would like to do with it.

Anyone with some art talent want to give it a try?