I'm working on my author website and I really suck at designing. So, can you give me your opinions? I can take honesty, even if it's harsh.
So, ugly or decent? What do you think?

I like the softer contrast a lot. It retains the contrast element of PARC, without making it hurt my eyes or violating accessibility rules.

@ThatDude he says there's too much white space after books

@fun2code
Ah, I didn't realize that. Thanks!

@ThatDude
Thanks, it's my pen name. The text is the same color of the box which I find odd why it looks different.

Backender here and i suck at design myself but it looks really neat imo!

@QueenMorgana
Thank you. That was the goal :).

@AlexDeLarge
Wow, good idea. Thanks.

@ThatDude it can work either way. If all boxes keep same text size and box size, it'll keep the repitition. If one has to change (doesn't fit in box) then alignment should be the focus with the same amount of white space on both sides of the text

@linuxxx
Thanks. Yeah, I'm more of a backend person than a front end as well.

@Michelle if you can't shorten the lines, try a sans serif font, which will allow more text without looking busy.

@QueenMorgana
People have said sans serif is difficult to read on a dark background, so I'm trying to avoid it.

Noiice website, good luck with your writing!

@ThatDude
Not yet. I'm working on it, once the mobile version is 100% finished and polished.

@tofonion
Thanks :).

Fixed it using everyon's feedback. It actually looks alot better than before :).

All I wanted to add was already said - if you implement most of it, then it should be perfect. What app did you use to do that? looks bit like enki?

@JoshBent
I suppose.
It's actually the Sololearn code playground.

Did you make the purple darker, or am I seeing things?

@kenogo
Thank you!

@QueenMorgana
I tried to make it lighter.

@Michelle Looks great!

@JoshBent
Thank you :).

About the spaces between headers and text etc, google "vertical rythym"

@jsframework9000
I didn't realize something like that existed. Thanks.

@Michelle please let me know when this goes live. Looking for more books to read...

@QueenMorgana
Sure. I'll keep you in my list of people to tag once it's published!

@Michelle yay! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

love the dark theme!

@nickj
Thanks. Dark fits so much better than light :)

@ThatDude
You're on my list!

@Michelle hey tag me too! i wanna see when its done

@nickj
Okay, I'll add you to my list!

Well I'm no expert, but since you're gonna have a lot of text, I suggest you increase the amount of 'whitespace' or empty space. It's easier on the eye.

Here https://blogs.adobe.com/creativeclo...

@Faraaz
Wow, it does make it more readable. Thanks and thanks for the article as well.

@ThatDude
I'm not sure yet, but I'm thinking of using hostgater or bluehost. I was going to use 00webhost, but I heard it's not trustworthy.

@ThatDude
I'm not expecting much traffic so I doubt that'll work out for me. Though, I'm worried about hosting atm. I'll take care of all that later on when it's done.

The text in purple needs to be lighter (in the books section). Contrast with background is too low. This makes it hard to read; especially on displays with calibration issues.

@hjk101
Noted. Thanks :)

I'm late to the party and everyone made great suggestions, but it looks fantastic!

@MissDirection
You're not late, but thanks :).

@SauceBoss
Will do. Thank you!!

@SauceBoss
You mean the same text as I was talking about right not the boxed headings?

@Michelle
Your overall design is already really good. I do have some points for you to consider though.

You could try to style the title blocks like bookmarks/inlays as you relate it to books. A bit freeform suits the writers name font better. Also will look better with longer and shorter titles on one page.

I think it looks better if you increase the left margin on both the title and the text so it looks a bit more like a paragraph under the title. This has a serious drawback though: less efficient use of screen real estate. Your current design is nicely optimized for that.

@hjk101
Thank you so much! I will keep a note of all this.

@AlexDeLarge
Thanks. Once it's all finished, I'll send a link. Though it'll take along time, depending on when my publisher wants me to host it :).

@LastDigitOfPi
Nope. I was screenshotting other things too.

I‘m more of a backend person too, so I suck at design, but imo it looks amazing!

I think you shouldnt use serif fonts in titles.

I viewed it on PC and it looks 50x uglier than mobile ://

@Michelle this is looking very nice.

On desktop you'll want to set a max-width on the content, and if those books have covers you can show them on desktop.

@Michelle as for hosting, if this is a static site you can use github pages. It can be a bit hard to setup (I've seen some rants about it recently) but it's free.

@shellbug
Still a WIP but thanks :)