CSS Experiments done (for now)

[trainsinanime]

Okay, I think this page design is now in a shape that I'm generally okay with. I've spent arguably too much time on it, to the point where there's basically nothing of the original design left. Next up: Writing some content here that isn't actually about me being here. Eventually…

Feel free to look around the page and poke at stuff. It fully supports dark mode; if your device switches to dark mode, the site will switch as well, immediately. I don't normally use dark mode myself (I only implemented it because it was a fun challenge), so if you think there's something I can do better, do let me know.

That applies in general: If you have an issue or think something doesn't work, or think something is exceedingly ugly, don't hesitate to leave a comment (and please indicate what device you're using and whether you're in dark or light mode). I already have a list of things I don't particular like and might tackle in the future:

• Colors for links are a bit all over the place.
• The way the date is shown for comments that do not have a title takes more vertical space than I like.
• The dot for the crossing of the blue and purple line in the header is slightly too far to the right in light mode (I've already fixed it for dark mode).
• I got rid of the user icon on articles because I couldn't find a place for it, but then I realised this stupid site shows the "Reading page" in my own blog's design, so I guess I'll have to add them back, because otherwise it's too confusing.

Comments

[jajalala]

Welcome to DreamWidth! I'm also fairly new to the platform (I think I started my account around a month ago?), but though there was a learning/familiarization hurdle I now am enjoying the format a lot! It's pretty unique on the web nowadays, and I was able to find a few active folks and communities that keep my reading page moderately busy (though one of the things I like about DreamWidth is that it's quite a bit slower paced than other social media sites!)

I'm on dark mode (on a computer, firefox browser), and your page design looks quite pleasant to me! Nice grays and purples, with enough contrast to be easily readable.

BTW if you're looking to follow new folks (who are hopefully active), there was a snowflake_challenge community that was all about getting to know new people and adding folks. Technically it's an event that spans over Jan 1st-31st, but the introductions post might be an easy way to skim through a bunch of folks who at least were active during the event and welcoming to new follows! I've also found digging though communities (and the "random journal" button and the "latest" button) to be helpful to find new folks. Hope you have fun here!

[trainsinanime]

Thank you! I'll take a look at that page. And it's good to know that the dark mode is working well, thank you for the feedback!