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Yay, MotoGP’s back this weekend, and to help get you in the mood you should pop over to LiveJournal to grab some excellent new web icons for forums and bulletin boards by the awesome stv21
Please ensure you stick to the crediting/no-linking principles though

I’m very pleased to announce that we have now completed the overhaul of www.alvarobautista.co.uk and that it is once again accessible to all.

It is a major redesign, and has moved away from being a ‘pretty but flat’ set of pages to a completely fully-featured news site with a huge news archive and a site search.

Although we all share and discuss news and ongoing rumours and race weekends on the BatiFans forum, we wanted to make a complete and comprehensive English-language Alvaro Bautista news service available to anybody around the world, and have so far added all of the news, interviews and features from the 2009 season and pre-season (including some videos) to the site, and will hope to add the 2008 news soon as well.

You can also comment on the posts if you wish so long as you use an email address when posting; and you can also share any news item by clicking on one of the buttons below it to post it to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and many other social bookmarking sites – as well as being able to email it with one click.
You can also subscribe to RSS news feeds of the new site so you can find out instantly whenever news is added.

We have also added some special “relaunch” downloads from the excellent ruushki – icons and wallpapers – which you can find on the site’s new Downloads page.
At the same time, we have also taken the opportunity to add some new E-Cards, so you can now have an even better choice of action pics, arty pics and cute pics from this year right back through all the seasons of Bati’s career in the world championships.

I hope you like the new www.alvarobautista.co.uk website, and I hope it is a useful extra resource for you – and for our many, many thousands of other visitors.

Cheers
gb

To celebrate Alvaro’s superb victory at Catalunya last weekend, it seems only right that the best way to do it is with a set of desktop icons of his special “Man of La Mancha” helmet.
As per usual I’ve done a set of Mac OSX and a set for Windows XP/Vista, each of which contains two icons of the helmet – one with a drop-shadow and one without.
All carefully crafted and alpha-channelled to pimpify your computer desktop to the very best effect.

Click here for the downloads…
Enjoy

There’s some excellent avatar icons for download over at stv21’s Sonrisa de Talavera blog… Too good to miss, so go over and get some triffick graphics for your forum posts…

Nice work stv

Not desktop icons this time, but icons of the “web” variety – nice, crafted graphics for you to use as avatars on forums and blogs.
And they’re not by me either.
So all kudos to… stv21 on the Sonrisa de Talavera blog for this set and also to ruushki for this set.
Both artists go way beyond Alvaro so you’ll find some other MotoGP, motor sport and even entertainment figures in these collections.
As ever with this kind of thing, do pay attention to any requirements for crediting and sharing – or not sharing – their work.

Okay – here are the icons of Alvaro nice red & silver 2008 helmet, prepped for Windows XP and Vista. As with the Mac OSX versions, there are two – one with a drop shadow and one without.
Click here to download the Windows XP / Vista icon set…

Enjoy