Grant,

You basically do this site pro bono from what i can tell. I am a designer (front end only, thank heavens) as well. I have a pro bono poster for a friend's band, a super cheap (under paid) website for a friend's business on my current plate, plus a charity website that I have been planning to get off the ground for years. When on earth can we get time to ride?

The warm nostalgic travel stamped background interacts perfectly with the cool color scheme in front and the torn paper look to the interface bg brings it all together. The way the navigation bar breaks the foreground integrates the site look at a very intelligent and subtle visual level.

The old look served its purpose as well. The hubb has always been a place we come for facts, not entertainment. The hubb is very compact, with little of the fluff that is so common on internet forums. While it may be a stretch to assert that the hubb has saved lives (though, I believe it may have), it has certainly saved trips for many that have been in dire straight, and thus changed lives. It certainly has been essential in transforming my life. I have accomplished trips of (most other folk's) lifetimes that are now a matter of course for me. Trips that I likely would not have dared to attempt w/o the kindly assistance/reassurance of my fellow hubb members. And that, my friend, remains more substantial than some braggartly trip report for never doer's on any other entertainment site.


So there you have it, the hubb is, and shall remain, the best place to find assistance for those of us that actually do it/live it. Here is where dreams and fruition collide. Plus now, the HU is not only the most informative, but also, the best looking, adv moto site on teh webbernets.

thx again

ps-- I cut and pasted/saved this before I posted.

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