Ran into a bit of a problem with the sideways gradient! Looks like I need something fairly long phrase-wise to have it fully blend, I have got a variant which will go from top to bottom which is like this (minus CENTER tags):
Hi! :3 Yeah we do bump in each other in a lot of places lately.
And for the signature, it would be lovely! I am so jealous of those who has amazing signature and CSS and stuff. I just realized that My Jirachi has a white background too, I didn't see this before as I had a white forum's theme :/