Taking time out of my little forum vacation to answer this:
You have at least three different main font colors going.. perhaps four (it's difficult to tell if the blueish color you use in the header is the same as the purpleish color you use in the right column). WHY? What made you think this was appealing or attractive?
You use gradients everywhere, including for each of your navigation items. WHY?
You use gold font, at times over a gradient gray background, for your navigation. WHY? Can you not see that it's incredibly difficult to read?
It's possible to do a dark layout well. Look at Ars Technica. When in dark mode, they use the following colors:
Dark gray for the main background
White for main text
Medium gray for secondary text
A slightly darker gray for tertiary text
Orange and green accents (logo, main navigation items)
The bulk of it is dark gray, white, orange, and green. Four colors, with two of them being black/dark gray and white for readability (even though it's not 'cool', black and white are the best colors to use for text you expect people to read).
Regarding fonts, sites typically use two or three, with one each of serif and sans-serif. Again, look at Ars Technica. The bulk of it is an assortment of sans-serif fonts, but the headlines are serif. This makes the headlines stand out from the rest. It draws the eye. You use the same font everywhere, and inexplicably have your navigation links bold while the category names (like "The HTML5 stuff") are a normal weight, which, really, is backwards from what it should be.
With sites aimed at Western audiences (meaning, people who read left-to-right, top-to-bottom), the audience's eyes will always start at the upper left of the screen. What does a rotating color wheel have to do with your site? Why did you add it? This is an example of the 90s design we've been chuckling about... it's a flashy-yet-cheap looking addition that was plopped down on a page just because. It serves no obvious purpose. It doesn't look good. It's inexplicable and confusing and doesn't belong there. Similarly with the other animation at the top right of the screen.
A website's design is its UI. And if you're interested in making software - whether it's desktop apps, mobile apps, games, websites, whatever - the UI matters. And the things that are wrong/bad with your site's design aren't website-specific. You can't just wave this away because it's a site, and you're not interested in making more sites in the future. If this was an example you used in a school presentation, or work presentation (think: Powerpoint), or as part of a portfolio you were showing to a potential employer - for any line of work - you'd be laughed out of the building.
I'm not saying that to pick on you, or to be mean, or to somehow elevate myself above you. Your website has no bearing on my day-to-day life. But as a person who has learned a ton from programming related forums, I do my best to pay it forward. I was a moderator at PHPFreaks for several years, which was one of the most popular web development forums on the web before Stack Overflow became a thing. It was an unpaid, volunteer position that I dedicated a ton of time to because other people spent that kind of time helping me. And that kind of effort includes being blunt and honest when it comes to site critique, because far too often amateurs ask their friends and family what they think, and those people don't have the heart to say it sucks.
It sucks.
But, we've given you hints/ideas/suggestions on how to fix it. The real question is whether you're going to sit there and deflect while trying to play at being a telepath and thinking you have our motivations figured out (hint: you don't), or if you're going to actually listen to what we've said and attempt to fix it.
Now, I'm going back on my vacation.
PS: your webhost sucks, too. I tried accessing your Pacman game, and it tells me your website is 'asleep'.
You have at least three different main font colors going.. perhaps four (it's difficult to tell if the blueish color you use in the header is the same as the purpleish color you use in the right column). WHY? What made you think this was appealing or attractive?
You use gradients everywhere, including for each of your navigation items. WHY?
You use gold font, at times over a gradient gray background, for your navigation. WHY? Can you not see that it's incredibly difficult to read?
It's possible to do a dark layout well. Look at Ars Technica. When in dark mode, they use the following colors:
Dark gray for the main background
White for main text
Medium gray for secondary text
A slightly darker gray for tertiary text
Orange and green accents (logo, main navigation items)
The bulk of it is dark gray, white, orange, and green. Four colors, with two of them being black/dark gray and white for readability (even though it's not 'cool', black and white are the best colors to use for text you expect people to read).
Regarding fonts, sites typically use two or three, with one each of serif and sans-serif. Again, look at Ars Technica. The bulk of it is an assortment of sans-serif fonts, but the headlines are serif. This makes the headlines stand out from the rest. It draws the eye. You use the same font everywhere, and inexplicably have your navigation links bold while the category names (like "The HTML5 stuff") are a normal weight, which, really, is backwards from what it should be.
With sites aimed at Western audiences (meaning, people who read left-to-right, top-to-bottom), the audience's eyes will always start at the upper left of the screen. What does a rotating color wheel have to do with your site? Why did you add it? This is an example of the 90s design we've been chuckling about... it's a flashy-yet-cheap looking addition that was plopped down on a page just because. It serves no obvious purpose. It doesn't look good. It's inexplicable and confusing and doesn't belong there. Similarly with the other animation at the top right of the screen.
A website's design is its UI. And if you're interested in making software - whether it's desktop apps, mobile apps, games, websites, whatever - the UI matters. And the things that are wrong/bad with your site's design aren't website-specific. You can't just wave this away because it's a site, and you're not interested in making more sites in the future. If this was an example you used in a school presentation, or work presentation (think: Powerpoint), or as part of a portfolio you were showing to a potential employer - for any line of work - you'd be laughed out of the building.
I'm not saying that to pick on you, or to be mean, or to somehow elevate myself above you. Your website has no bearing on my day-to-day life. But as a person who has learned a ton from programming related forums, I do my best to pay it forward. I was a moderator at PHPFreaks for several years, which was one of the most popular web development forums on the web before Stack Overflow became a thing. It was an unpaid, volunteer position that I dedicated a ton of time to because other people spent that kind of time helping me. And that kind of effort includes being blunt and honest when it comes to site critique, because far too often amateurs ask their friends and family what they think, and those people don't have the heart to say it sucks.
It sucks.
But, we've given you hints/ideas/suggestions on how to fix it. The real question is whether you're going to sit there and deflect while trying to play at being a telepath and thinking you have our motivations figured out (hint: you don't), or if you're going to actually listen to what we've said and attempt to fix it.
Now, I'm going back on my vacation.
PS: your webhost sucks, too. I tried accessing your Pacman game, and it tells me your website is 'asleep'.
