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So, this idea takes ideas from Darkness, Seamus (with banner), and Breeze (with banner). From Darkness, it takes the border (which I really liked, even if it doesn't work properly in IE). I particularly like how you can meld the header image into the border. In Seamus (and I look at Seamus Light with the Border in particular as a possible replacement for my site), I like the way the menu tabs blend in to the currently loaded page (although I can't use that feature due to certain installed modifications and all my specialized menus). Additionally, from Darkness, it is nice that you can alter the side margins (like I have on my site)
I also like the setup for the Login/Facebook stuff on top, how it seems to fit more into the theme than Darkness (where it's just up there, easy to miss for some people for some reason). The theme footer is also better than Darkness, for the same reason. I like it better than the Breeze footer as well, because Breeze feels a bit too much like wordpress in the footer. However, I like how Breeze centers on the page, whereas in Darkness you can only have it start on the leftmost edge of the left margin. For sites that need to show advertisements in the outermost margin area the ability to spread that margin out is important.
However, what I like about Breeze is the social networking buttons and that there are different links in the header image which you can customize to feature different parts of the site. This is where my idea came in. My ideal header would be similar to this, but instead of these text links, I was thinking a kind of slideshow section. It'd probably be easiest to handle via an additional modification added onto the theme, but a way to set a small image area and a description, which when clicked on takes you to the link of your choice would be great for sites that do news or have major sections that they want to show off.
Lastly, and this is more of a regular feedback than anything else, but I like it that you are producing Light and Dark versions of your themes. I had to modify a fair amount of Darkness because it really fit my vision for my site, mostly for the coloring and backgrounds and such.
Ok, to summarize, the theme I would like to see you release would:
- Have a graphic border that makes the header, login area, footer, and main content all look like they fit together somehow.
- Flexible margin controls
- A larger banner with social network buttons and a small text and picture slideshow portion for displaying features.
- Multiple color schemes to choose from.
Hopefully I got it all. If you make something like this you can expect me to be one of your first customers for it.
I look forward to becoming a paying customer 
