@Tokuisei

Thanks for your post.

I am sort of curious...
I notice that most of the logo descriptions are duplicated in the Cell Title, as they are usually apparent in the Logo.
I wonder have you considered the option of not displaying a cell title at all

Secondly, and of course it is matter of choice, had you not considered too having
a display where the cell boundary was not displayed, or perhaps only on hover.
Or well maybe you like the squares for each cell, a number of users prefer this style.

@Tokuisei

Thanks for the feedback
Good work

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I had to change the ocean color for the background image to black so it would blend better (the logo borders helped hide the mismatch

I understand.
Your solution works well.

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I wish there was a way to give the outer boxes borders and leave the two inner ones blank

Try the following.
Give your borders a colour so you can see them again.
And then go to Preferences/General and de-select show empty cells.

Hopefully then you should see no more borders in the middle two cells, as the cells should no longer be there.
If not then right click/remove the two cells in the middle.

If you go back to having borders, please have a look at the rounder border settings mentioned below, you may like the effect.

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Not liking the extra fat navigation toolbar tho.

I see that you have also made the toolbars darker.
This seems to work well.
Maybe a different theme might alter the toolbar size

You could also try loading Fast Dial Version 2.14 from here.
It has Autohide and only shows the Navigation bar on hover.

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If you decide to continue using borders this Style may interest you
Rounder Cells in FD 2

Similarly Mafi0z excellent Tutorial on the same subject
Rounder Fast Dial Cells - Stylish Extension

Another interesting option for altering a cell when you select it is to alter the values of opacity in Preferences between active and non active cell

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How do you like your second Fast Dial Version ?
Seems to have a bit more space don't you think ?
And the world map seems more visible ?

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Regarding a question in your first post:

Are there guidelines for what settings to use in Photoshop for the reflect effect? Maybe some standard that we all go by?

Seems like a PhotoShop Tutorial is on the way from Mafi0z

Keep your eyes open.
Should be arriving soon
Probably will be posted here

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You guys sure you didn't notice anything strange about my first pic? :P

Are you referring to the fact that it would appear that all of the icons appear to be opaque black, and not transparent ?

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Good luck !