colors

[Techno]

Hi.
I am designing a forum from scratch but having difficulty of finding out which colors suit the "mood" of the gradient background and make it easy on the eye for the user.

In your opinion (and please dont say "whatever suits you my friend" :)) - what color goes best with this image? What range/varient of colors?

more specifically, i need to work on the text (main reply) which is in forecolor white. perhaps I can change this to a different color depending on the backcolor.

help, im confused! :(

what is a more attractive/nice/easy/welcoming type colors?

http://www.spapps.co.uk/img/colorHelp.JPG

[-i-dont-know-]

Whatever suits you my friend ;)

Nah, i'm kidding :) The dark blue above the date looks hard to read. It would look better if you made some of the bars look a bit more 3d. Also check out a colour scheme generator like:
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
So far, I think white text looks okay.
Hope this helps :D

[Techno]

ah that dark blue above the date was nothing important, just indication/reminder for me to put some buttons there, which i have done.

this is what it looks like now:

http://www.spapps.co.uk/img/forumPreviewImage.jpg

thoughts?

[-i-dont-know-]

Looks better. I think it needs some other background colour than white so the forum doesn't look so seperated. Also, it may be slightly dark, but that might just be because of the quality of the screen shot.