HAHA I know what you mean. I hate the ones with text the most, I never can find the post in them. Takes too long to find it.
I usually do a small picture on top and bottom or on the side and I'm done. Here I do what I did on Tris at times, the small keyboard images and that's it. This is what I came up with :
http://www.ernya.com/noel-s-lab-becaref ... 77962.html
I'm using the second one. Like the color better personally. In my program I downloaded called Photoscapes, you can make gifs and I'm considering it. I can either do the top and bottom seperate or have them go together but not sure how I would handle that in a post style with a top and bottom. I have to think it through first.