hi steve, hi mike.
thx for the participation.
what do you mean by troublemakers? the ones who do not contribute but only take the posted codes or where there other isues?? i m new here, just signed up today. will take a look at further posts.
i have searched a little bit and took a closer look at the html of the sites i have mentioned.
here is how i solved the problem (perhaps you will need to fix the "ids" to make them fit to your style.css, but for me it worked quite well )
<form method="get" id="searchform" action="http://YOURDOMAIN.com/wp-signup.php">
<div>
<input name="new" value="Your Blog Here ?" onfocus="if(this.value=='Your Blog Here ?')this.value='';" onchange="javascript:this.value=this.value.toLowerCase();" title="Enter Username to signup" size="9" type="text" name="s" id="s" /><br/>
<input type="submit" value="Signup »" title="Click to signup" onclick="this.value='Please Wait......'" type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Signup »" />
</div>
</form>
if you know other ways in doing this,
please post them.
(hope i could express myself good enough coz my first lenguage is german)