So for a while I had a site, http://NickSYS.com/ . Well I let my ownership run out, by accident, and it got snagged from me. So I went domain hunting. (For the record, there are a lot of awesome domains out there you can still get, just… 'exotic' domains are way too pricey. $75+ a year compared to the $10 I used to pay and the $5 I just recently paid.)
So I settled with link2x.us because I knew for certain I didn't want a .com, the domain I wanted would've cost well over $100 for a year, and because .us is cheap.After some work, it's finally ready for unveiling. :Dhttp://link2x.us/
Well, I now know I'll never go blind visiting your site at least.
From your blog styling and your website styling I'm going to assume you've never heard of the word "Contrast". You should look it up.
Modified it. There, better now?
Yes, now it's just boring, rather than unreadable
exactly^
Then don't bother styling it at all, just have plain text.
So we shouldn't strive to make things that look nice? Everything should be functional and nothing more?
No, I reject that, aesthetics are important. It's not just "making things look nice", it's making them easy to use and understand, it's making effective use of the available space without being confusing, it's creating something visually appealing without being distracting. UI design isn't a joke.i love how PY is so opinionated about everything.
i think the site looks great, nice and simple.Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this site is the worst thing ever, or even bad, I quite like it.
But that doesn't change that "meh, you won't pay attention to the site once he posts some awesome content." is something I find very silly - if somebody is showing off their website, they're showing off the design. Don't handwave design criticisms.Some suggestions - try to work with contrast a bit - from contrasting like colors (dark and light greys, or blues, or whatever color you want) alongside contrasting the colors themselves (red and green, orange and blue, purple and green), and perhaps the saturation levels of them.
I do like the overall design, though it seems almost -too- simplistic (I get a similar bleh feeling that I get when visiting your other link that leads to that crappy page sitting thing).