So I'm TERRIBLE at picking colours (or perhaps it's just the organising them part)....and I was getting really upset last night about it. One of my admins asked if there was any object in the house I loved the colours of. I immediately cheered at the thought of my insane doonah (USA: blanket) cover. She told me to make a palette from it, and to humour her I did. I LOVE it.



But the thing now is....putting it into the web page. So far I have The dummy page and the page I'm working on.

But I've had a few complaints about the background....I've been having SO much trouble finding one and then I finally find one I LOVE and everyone winges at me...

So I compromised, and put up a poll so people could vote. I've asked some of my friends to vote (you don't have to be a member to post or vote).

But I don't fancy a plain background. I don't want something busy but I want to stick to my palette... and I want it to still be me too.

I'm really stuck so if ANYONE has even the smallest idea...I'd really love to hear it..

Hello?

Why don't you fancy using a neutral color for the background? Sometimes, what works is not necessarily what you personally like.

^ but it's a personal site, so I have to personally like it or theres no point :(

I like your colors very much, but I do find them distracting. Perhaps they just take up too much room. Maybe you could try putting them in a much narrower strip down each side. They'd be visible, but perhaps not so busy. And the colors are used throught the rest of the site, so they wouldn't disappear.

Like halve the width of the sides?

I can do that if you think it will help :)

It didnt really help...

Blue seems to be winning in the poll so I just changed it to blue :(

i would like to suggest something other than colour scheme related, if i can (i'm not very good with website colours and had to seek for the advice from other colourlovers as well). i don't know if you are done working on the graphics yet, but i've noticed that these rounded corners look a little bit rough, so you might want to fix that.

Yeah I see what you mean, it was probably all the colour changing I did to them before I got my colourscheme. If you want to suggest another you can :).

Are you designing on a huge monitor? Every thing is so BIG AND IN YOUR FACE. And the colors assist in that... You could try a striped background... maybe a washed out version of the same colors. The colors are much too random IMO... pick 3 of the 5 and use the other 2 colors to tie the other 3 together... Its really hard to use that many main colors.

I dunno how to do that (pick 3 colours) lol...

I do have a huge monitor, but I think when I chose the font family it picked a bigger size than I wanted so I have to fix that when I get around to it.

pick 2 or 3 and then use a tint and shadow of one them for your 4th and 5th colors. I definitely agree with SimplyComplex, things need to quite down and get smaller, you can still get a lot of personality with a clean design and neutral colors. Maybe a palette like this

or

The Cooler wrote:

pick 2 or 3 and then use a tint and shadow of one them for your 4th and 5th colors. I definitely agree with SimplyComplex, things need to quite down and get smaller, you can still get a lot of personality with a clean design and neutral colors. Maybe a palette like this

or

I love these 2 palettes! I was having trouble coming up with some examples...

I dunno. I think I'm going to go with a whole new palette.

thanks SimplyComplex!