I scraped the original idea to use the palette ‘washed up sea’.
I finished the layout I’ve been working on. The inspiration was mainly based on crayons chose by a classmate of mines, the colors were black, purple, and a shade of teal. It was very hard to recreate the teal color, I had to break out PhotoShop to select one.
I had a lot of grief with the header and sidebar. Getting enough padding on the sidebar was difficult, and choosing the right radius for the rounded corner was confusing. ‘Shaping’ the header was just very weird. I originally started out with a block of color, than I changed it to a gradient with a triangle cut-out pattern at the bottom. I really liked the last one but it was impossible to include a triangle pattern on the sidebars (when I did it it looked great, I just didn’t figure it out until I tested it) because of its fluid design.
The text was really easy to do, and colors were super easy to pick. But I do have to change the date, and comment styles, I don’t want to reuse as I’m currently using the style for my other site. This layout counts as the January Layout.
