Does this color scheme work?

I'm afraid that color scheme sucks a bit. I'm not a designer, so I can't tell you exactly why... but it needs improving.

Here's my best effort at explaining why I don't like it: the contrast between the black and white backgrounds is too much, and the blue text in the main body doesn't stick out enough. Hope that helps.

i think it looks nice cept for the white BG on the menu area, change that to something and im sure it will look great.

i think u should have white bg and black text..

I like the contrast, but the blue throws it off...

Try using this tool:

http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

It should help you chose a good sheme.

i would suggest not to have white on black, and that the blue writing is a little too dark

thats alot easier on the eyes, maybe try a really light grey or blue (e.g. #EFF8FF ) instead of the white background

Wow, it looks really nice now. I'll remember to post on the PunBB forums if I ever have trouble making a decent color scheme.

If you take a look at the validator output, it tells you the exact problem (in this case: you have <li>s that aren't inside <ol>s or <ul>s).

Why are you even using <li> there at all if you don't want a bulleted list? Just do it the old fashioned way:

<p>Line 1<br />
Line 2<br />
etc<br />
Line N</p>

Ok, heres what I have done, as of yet. I removed the target=blank, (suprised I did not notice them), and created a new div class with the same properties, got rid of the li, and placed them under the div. But, I can only figure out how to do that for the last 5. The other 14 are writter dynamicaly, and I have no idea where to begin looking for where it writes it? Any ideas?

<h3>news:</h3>
<?php wp_get_links(1); ?>
<h3>friends</h3>
<?php wp_get_links(3); ?>

That throws the text out of alignment; it indents it, which I do not want.

Archive text generation code found in wp-includes/template-functions-links.php

btw you may as well change it to strict