Thread:Gemspinner019/@comment-188432-20140516192152/@comment-188432-20140720024400

I don't think that's a wasted effort at all! After all, wikis should be revamped from time to time, and it's important that all admin develop the skills to make changes like this. I think that it shows you really did read Help:Background and come up with something that definitely works according to the parameters there. So I think this effort really will stand you in good stead as you go forward from this point.

It's important to understand that I wasn't objecting because I'd put in time. I've been editing wikis for a big ol' chunk of my adult life, so I know that you can put in a lot of time on stuff and then someone comes by with a superior edit that washes away your work in a second. Them's just the facts. :) What I was talking about, instead, can best be illustrated by just looking at the file history of . It starts at the bottom with the image you suggested when the project started.  All the way up to your image, there are obviously common colours — riffs on the same purples, magentas and salmons. But then yours is kind of a clean break from those colours.  And that in itself would be fair enough.  However, since the content area's colours are based on the image you originally submitted, it throws off article pages too.  At least — and it's always important to stress — in my personal opinion.

Quite clearly, however, the fun of Wikia is in discovering all this. So keep on innovating and trying stuff.

That said, it can be really helpful to gain some knowledge of and sensitivity to harmonious colour palettes. One way you can up your game is to go to a site like http://paletton.com, input a few of the colours that are in your colour palette, and see what suggestions it brings up for other colours to match your palette. Then you can go to popcap.com or whatever and do some random samples of the largest "blobs" of colour in an image to see if it matches your established palette. If not, you can easily use Gimp or Photoshop or whatever image editor you use to nudge the image's colours more in line with your site's. A useful thing to do at some point is to just to a Google search for the phrase, "How to make an image match a color palette". A lot of fascinating things will pop up!

Anyway, sorry, colour is a big deal to me, so thanks for letting me rant for a bit. We're almost done. There's one little thing I've got to do to make sure the front page degrades usefully on tablets, or when people collapse their browser windows to the point that the background wholly disappears.