I am not confident that my color scheme works, I am fairly new to design please assist me ?

Thanks for your reply , but I listed my website so you can see it live so there's no need for me to post pictures of my site and its colors when I listed the url ?

I actually agree with this point. A website has a lot more colors than just those 3. Generally when talking about color palettes people place the color swatches together so it's easy to see.

Oooo ok Now I understand I will create a palette to show you but before I do that do I also include the grey colors in the palette ?

In this case I think so, you make pretty heavy use of the greys in your site.

Hi thanks for the quick reply , ok This is my palette the only thing I did not include is the color white. I did include the main 2 greys I use but left out the other 2 different shades that are very subtle in my design and not dominate.

http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/3055298/Ian_I

Advice and help would be fantastic :-)

Awesome tools thank you.

-Ok so I eliminated my "dark blue hues" from my background gradient and made a new gradient which consist of the main color of my logo and mixes in to match the two colors used for my menu bar below my header. Does this appear better to you ?

-Specifically where are the uses of black you are talking about ?

• Do you think my orange accent color should be used more (# FFAC43) ?

Thank you for helping me

Thanks a ton for helping me. ok so for the gradient in the background I have changed it I think everyday not being satisfied lol.

1.) The gradient right now is the #46A5E5 blue at the top then it blends in to two slightly different shades of grey. I noticed that making it a variation of shades of #46A5e5 makes the site look so dark to me which I don't like, then making it all grey or different shades makes it way to light since I use a lot of white space in the main content it becomes to much lightness. So I am stuck at not knowing how to make a perfect gradient.

2.) If I change just the font color of the main navigation bar below my header wouldn't that make the font to light so I would also have to change the color of the background of the main navigation bar also ? It may look black but its actually #182945.

3.) Once the background gradient is settled on then I could change the read watch connect buttons colors to match it, so I have to wait to settle on that first, but I agree with you.

4.) The Orange accent I have actually only applied to one button which is the submit comment button on a blog post. Don't I have to be cautious using the orange since its an accent and to much will look bad Since it draws the eye immediately?

Thanks again for your awesome help

anymore help on what I wrote above would be great

Thanks I will work on that :-)

Hi thank you so much for taking the time to help me I really appreciate it. Ok so I added background-attachment: fixed; position: static; width: 100%;

And yes I agree with you going that route does make everything look better. As far the background colors go these are the main colors of my website: (http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/3055298/Ian_I) I cant seem to find the right balance between something looking to dark or to light. Should I just choose one of those colors and then pick different shades to create the gradient ? This is a tough choice for me as I cant decide the right background color combo. I know about all those tools but I don't know which color to settle on as the background .

Thank you so much I will take a look at that and let you know. Appearntly though there is a problem with my free word press theme I have been using : (https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/should-i-switch-from-my-free-wordpress-theme-to-a-paid-wordpress-theme-from-themeforest) Your advice would be awesome. Thanks for going out of your way again to help me