Tips on how to make my Tumblr page look better?

[PlasmaPower]

I've been reluctant to ask for advise, but I'm wondering what I could do to improve it.

Is there anyway to color the post text so it's easier to see?

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And is there anyway to remove or replace the white around the arrows here?

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[Infatuation]

The best way to learn is to look at everyone else's CSS coding and take notes, as well as playing around with your code's properties
I don't know what your CSS is like, so I'm going to show you my tumblr (http://atazir.tumblr.com) and show you the relevant bits so you get a feel for what you need to change in your own CSS.

Is there anyway to color the post text so it's easier to see?
Do a ctrl+f for {blockosts} and see what the selector/div id for posts is. For mine, it's straight-forward and named "posts" but not everyone calls it that. So go back up into the style tags and see what properties it has:

#posts {
margin-left:300px;
width:500px;
padding:5px;
border:1px solid #000;
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
}

You probably don't want your posts to have a semi-transparent background so add "background-color: #HEXCODE;" to your div selector, and play around until you get a colour you like.

And is there anyway to remove or replace the white around the arrows here?
Yep! I'm assuming they're the arrows that let you navigate between pages. So do a ctrl+f for {block:NextPage} and change the things within that tag. I'm assuming it looks something like

{block:NextPage}
<div id="nextpage">
<a href="{NextPage}"><img src="URL"></a><br>
</div>
{/block:NextPage}
{blockreviousPage}
<div id="previouspage">
<a href="{PreviousPage}"><img src="URL"></a>
</div>
{/blockreviousPage}

So basically all you need to change are the things in bold, within the a href tags. You can change it to another set of buttons, or just plaintext "NEXT" and "BACK" if you wish.

 

[piichinu]

Add a music player maybe
Get rid of pages and get endless scroll
Maybe get a new theme because i dunno i just dont find that one aesthetically pleasing, personally
This is a great blog: http://yukoki.tumblr.com/
More ideas can be found on above blog

I couldnt tell if you only wanted answers to those two questions or were asking for ideas (or both), sorry if you werent!
My blog used to be ugly af but here it is now: http://crustaceangeneticist.tumblr.com/ (loud music warning!)

 

[PlasmaPower]

Add a music player maybe
Get rid of pages and get endless scroll
Maybe get a new theme because i dunno i just dont find that one aesthetically pleasing, personally
This is a great blog: http://yukoki.tumblr.com/
More ideas can be found on above blog

I couldnt tell if you only wanted answers to those two questions or were asking for ideas (or both), sorry if you werent!
My blog used to be ugly af but here it is now: http://crustaceangeneticist.tumblr.com/ (loud music warning!)

I was asking both, If you were wondering.

 

[charmi]

I need to apply some of these tips too ; v ; Good luck!