A Crash Course in Graphic Design

We're still currently working on creating a new "look and feel" aspect to the current Kukui Cup website and frankly, its been quite rough. For this entire week, I've been basically tackling various things head-on. For the Kukui Cup, I've been working on finding a color pallet that would work for the page, as well as designing a background that would be able to be nicely responsive, as well as match the overall theme of the page. Honestly, props to those who do this professionally because they must have a really good eye for color, images, and sizing of things. I was only able to create one theme this week because of all the craziness going on with my other classes. 

Although, I've been taking short notes on color pallets based on things I see elsewhere like stores, other websites, mobile, apps, etc. for colors that would seem to have a "natural" feel. The only problem now is actually implementing them into the website and making it aesthetically pleasing. This coming weekend is a long weekend, which means I'll have an extra day to work on a couple other color schemes. The hardest part seems to be finding a nice background that would match the widget-like layout of the pages.