As hacking wordpress becomes more and more popular for use as a content management solution. Taking the wordpress out of wordpress seems to be getting harder and harder. I noticed Wordpress somehow disabled and currupted the Wordpress login image so I made a new one quickly. I didnt put a gradient in it, you can do that yourself, here you go I think its a great starting point. The login image is located at …wp-admin\images\login-bkg-tile.gif of your site.