Help with text,

I'm having troubles putting text into my signatures. Once I put them in, they look rubbish and unappealing. I've seen signatures here with great text, and I want to know how to do that specificly.

Thanks,
BiteTheDust

Best thing to do with text is just stick to default fonts, lower the opacity and place them close to your main focal, in your current I don't see anything wrong with the text placement or the font except the Conticante thing, very un-appealing and hard to read. Stick to defaults unless you have a specific theme your using (like my Venom one, I used the Spiderman font.) Hope this helps. :D

Check these for tips as well -

http://www.gfxvoid.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45209
http://www.gfxvoid.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50725

take a look at papa's text tutorial, it helped me alot.