Site color styling

[ZZZ]

I'm working on a little personal project unrelated to level design. It's a site dedicated to analhytic geometry and linear álgebra, which are related to computer graphics.

It's the first time I've ever worked on a site's theme.

http://vectorsandgeometry.wikidot.com/

It's a simple style. It has an Alice blue theme with dotted borders.

Edited March 19, 2016 by 0kelvin

[ZZZ]

Darkened the body's background and decided to use boxes to separate contente. So if a page contains multiple examples or exercises, rather than using bullet points and blank lines to identify each one, I'm using divs to create blue boxes.

Header has a thicker white border. I wish I could make the header with the same style as the main content, with white background, inner blue box with dotted borders, but to do that I need a pro account.

Edited March 23, 2016 by 0kelvin

[blackdog]

It looks very… academic, also 90s ?

Are you limited by what the system gives you? (I guess you are customising a wiki theme that came with it)

Guess is alright, but like I said looks dated. It's very possible to make a modern styled site and keep it very legible. Limitations are only CSS knowledge and system output.

[ZZZ]

Limited by pre defined layouts, yes. Only pro accounts can change it. Free accounts are limited to CSS.

[blackdog]

In theory CSS alone can change layout, but depends a bit how html is laid. Also you can do stuff like rounded corners and drop shadows.

Anyway not really suggesting that, is more I'm not a fan of box-in-a-box. I'd desaturate the background a bit, I find it a bit too overpowering. Was thought that pages could/should be designed in grayscale to get the contrast right first. Dunno if you know of colorschemer, a tool that helps you finding the correct palette (colour theory ftw); and there are others from Adobe and more. There are palette-ready collections at colourlovers and can't remember the equivalent Adobe version. Could be useful to take a look. If you definitely want a certain colour I think you can search for themes containing it.