Need some design help

[ThunderPX]

http://t-universe.zapto.org

See that site? I'm revamping it soon. I got some complaints about the colour scheme, so I'm definetely changing it (because when text is the main focus of your site, you don't want it to be hard to read.) The problem is, I'm not sure what kind of colour scheme to go for. I don't usually like extremely light (in colour) layouts, I don't want to go for white.

[Radium]

The color scheme isn't so bad, though the purple doesn't go well with the otherwise red-green-black scheme. The text would be a bit easier to read if the contrast wasn't so sharp. Like, instead of using white on black, take a page from Maddox and try yellow or gray on black.

The main problem, IMO, is your text size and story layout. The text is way too small, and your story has WAY too few linebreaks. When looking at it, all one sees is a huge, intimidating blur of text. Remember, you want to start a new paragraph whenever you change speakers or subjects. This isn't just a grammatical rule, it more importantly makes stories a lot easier on the eyes and easier to read.

So, move your text size up a couple clicks, run through and add left align and proper paragraphing, and maybe make the words gray and your site will be looking 200% better in no time.

[Monolith]

I suggest not using magenta.

[Sonyk]

I second that notion.

[ThunderPX]

The color scheme isn't so bad, though the purple doesn't go well with the otherwise red-green-black scheme. The text would be a bit easier to read if the contrast wasn't so sharp. Like, instead of using white on black, take a page from Maddox and try yellow or gray on black.

The main problem, IMO, is your text size and story layout. The text is way too small, and your story has WAY too few linebreaks. When looking at it, all one sees is a huge, intimidating blur of text. Remember, you want to start a new paragraph whenever you change speakers or subjects. This isn't just a grammatical rule, it more importantly makes stories a lot easier on the eyes and easier to read.

So, move your text size up a couple clicks, run through and add left align and proper paragraphing, and maybe make the words gray and your site will be looking 200% better in no time.

Ah, that explains a lot. Normally I would've protested against going through every chapter, but I was going to re-read everything and alter some dialogue here and there anyway. Thanks.

[Grytolle]

table border="0" plz (or atleast use CSS to make it a bit hotter)

[ThunderPX]

I hate borderless tables, they make everything look confusing. What can I do with CSS to make it look better?

[Grytolle]

add this to the table-tag for instance:
table style="border: solid 17px; border-color: pink;"
AND I URL HACKED TO GET HERE GG

[n0]

Uh... Gry, you broke the JCF. I am currently typing this post IN your post.

[ThunderPX]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you didn't mean to break the tables. =P

EDIT: Ah, you forgot to close the tag. But I fail to see how dotted pink borders are any better than magenta nav buttons =p

[Fawriel]

How... impressive.

[Grytolle]

Sorry, guys, couldn't find the edit button :/

[Grytolle]

...and I cant edit that one either. It was just an example... :p

[ThunderPX]

The quote button is somewhere in the CODE table, so the edit button must be there too.

[Grytolle]

Fixorzed