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Get advice and help. Anything and everything malls/shops/upgrades/graphics advice is here. As someone great one said: I know half my advertising doesn't work. I just don't know which half!

Can I get advice on this?

I played around with some digital scrapbooking stuff I had bought online & came up with this nifty little graphic last night. I really really love it. I just don't think it's bright/catchy enough to lure someone to click on it. I do use 1 other catchy image, but still. I tried making the houses different colors, but that didn't seem to help. It made it worse. What do you think? http://i30.tinypic.com/149wb34.jpg

Wanting to start 4m NB Advert - need buttons advice / graphics critism

There will be 13 buttons (yes, 13 is a weird number). So far I have 1 - Home/Garden (taken) 2 - Books/School 3 - Food/Drinks 4 - Collectables 5 - Training/Bottled Faeries 6 - Wearables/Backgrounds (taken) 7 - Petpets/Supplies 8 - Toys and Plushies (taken) 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 -