Don't apologize for honesty. I can take feedback, and I appreciate the honesty. If you think it sucks, go ahead and say so, element was honest, and i tihnk it helps. So if you're going to comment on my work, go ahead and say anything you like, because I'm not going to flip out.
I'm actually agreeing that it's a tad strange for a banner, thanks for the feedback, it's having trouble matching the template colors anyways.
newer version inside of template
and I agree it looks weird in there. I've worked decently hard on both, and that's not the most recent version.