Better? OK. I'll grant you one on the choice of colors. I like using the system colors. That wqay the user can choose the colors using Windows. I've done things with cool animations like forms that fade in an out using tranparency. That is until the customer called and asked how to turn it off.

My look and feel sucks. I know that. I let our graphics design folks come up with the standard for what makes it look good and they let me make it work good. That's team work.