Design in general is hard to get right. Stuff that looks modern today can look crap a short time later and I'm not sure what goes in web these days. Colours, fonts and layout all matter, but I couldn't define how. That's why I'm happy not to be a web developer. I've done courses on CSS and stuff, but couldn't do it now. I used to maintain my own site, but I used a CMS with defaults. One reason I prefer using Hive is that I don't have to worry about that stuff and I use minimal formatting on my posts. I can see that this is a nice exercise for you anyway and I think it looks pretty good. It may bring the odd (or very odd) person to Hive.