Heyo Salad
Welcome to the Xion forums first of all! It's always great to know new people are discovering that they can finally inject their static designs with some life. It's even better when the design is as good as yours! There are lots of users that crave bar modes that they can just overlay on a windows title bar or something (right logokas?
). This is indeed a simple design but the subtle gradients and colours give it an awesome vibe
My only suggestion here is to lessen the size of the fading on the track title text. Sometimes, the text is not long enough to start scrolling, but takes up the entire width of the text block which means you won't be able to read what it is all that well, particularly a problem when you're streaming. Also, the large fading looks a little strange next to the other text elelemnts on the buttons and such, which are nice and bold. Perhaps the time text could be a little bolder/lighter too.
OK so on to your questions. For sliding drawers and menus, unzip the default Xion skin and take a look at how that is put together. It has a slide out panel with all the playback controls on it.
And for the second problem, you don't need an underscore in your layer name. You should have this on your layer: "track fa(center) fs(10) whatever(x)". Just type "track" once and just put a space between the other keywords.
And that's that! See you around dude
EDIT: Oh and when in doubt, just unzip somebody elses skin
Peace, Lance