CMYK Theme

I like the simplicity of it. It’s colourfull but not an eyefull either. It isn’t cluttered, unlike so many sites one sees nowadays.

That said, a couple small issues. The magenta sidebar overlaps the main content area when looking at the site on 800×600 resolution (firefox 1.5.0.4 peecee).

The contrast of the white text against said magenta background is not very strong, it is hard to read. Perhaps set the font-weight to bold for that area might help?

The links in your header above the Gareth Townsend (home, archive, about) also seem to lack contrast, but more importantly are too close together. Add some padding-left and padding-right to separate them some more. Perhaps bolding them as well?

Finally, the sidebar disapears when looking at a single post. This may be by design, but it removes the search function and some of the navigation, forcing the user to go back to the home page for it. Not a behaviour I’d go for, but that’s just me ??

Cheers, thanks for showing us the work.

Thanks for the comments vavroom.

I’ve changed the spacing of the menu system in the header and I am working out what to do about the other nigling issues (800×600 and contrast of text).

Not sure what I’ll do about the search bar. I might move it elsewhere or keep the sidebar visible. Will have to play around with it and see how it turns out.