Just spent a long time on this one. I haven't made one like this before. Border: Or no border: C&C please. EDIT: Lol, can't see the border because the forums background.
I don't like it very much, but it's just my opinion. I think you should mess more with gradient maps and with the letring, as with that render the bg doesn't blend very well.
What i said tho, and it's not saying that i am any better or worse than you are, is that the bg ( blended or not ) doesnt flow with the kind of "render" you got back there, but i think if you applied some effect c4d, sharppened, blurred the corners, added some light and got a Black to White gradient map the tag'd be great.
There's 5 gradient maps and a color balance in the sig. But it does need sharpening. I'll do that now. EDIT: How's this?