Oh neat, that's pretty cool Caday!
I definitely like the lighter tones from your more recent version better. The text is pretty cool too, but I have been using the style on the banner on all of the recruitment images and everything too, so I'm not sure I want to deviate from that. I had my own ideas to create a member site based off the Al De placeholder picture, but I tend to be too busy to get it going hehe. Here is what I had in mind (these pictures have been done for ages in photoshop, I was simply too lazy to complete them):
Was thinking of like a fade to this, with maybe the menu shifting to the side....or something... o_o
It's really cool of you to take the initiative to put together a website for us! Put some things together and let everyone weigh in on them on how they like it and I will post it up for us to use~ I don't think Fei-chan can create and new original art for a background because she is swamped with her projects and the requests I have made for the guild recruitment banners, but if you see any of her artwork or any of the stuff I created on the pages above or banner (such as the FT Jewel logo), I can get you some high res photoshop versions to work with.
-Wiz