How the Dock should have looked

Doesn't look any better or worse than the standard Dock in my opinion. And that's what it really boils down to... opinion.

 

Thanks, I shall go take a peek. ^_^

 

I think this is a matter of preference and many design attempts have been made that far exceed your design. Really, to each their own here, much like those who use geektool scripts to add time, weather and calendar functionality to their desktop which would otherwise be covered by application windows.