Category Archives: Colors in Design

Are All Fonts Created Equal When it Comes to Web Design?

January 22, 2011 – 10:18 pm

The font styles you choose for your web site set the tone of the content. Some fonts are so powerful that even unrelated characters, when combined, can convey a message of fun, whimsy, importance or even elegance. While the right style can contribute to keeping site visitors engaged and interested in exploring more, a poor [...]

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Considering Colors

November 18, 2010 – 7:31 pm

When designing your website, you need to carefully consider your color choices. That’s because site visitors form their opinions about your site within nine seconds of first seeing the page. Your colors give some of the first visual clues as to the site’s content, importance, and navigation. Used wisely, colors group similar ideas together, express [...]

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Web Design Templates

March 28, 2010 – 3:43 pm

Web Design Templates
If you’re interested in designing your own website but you’re not crazy about starting from scratch, web design templates can be a great alternative. This option provides a virtual buffet of pre-designed templates from which you can choose. Once you have the backdrop determined, you plug in content, and voila! Not only can [...]

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Web Designs: Good, Bad, Ugly or Just Different?

October 23, 2009 – 4:20 pm

Whether you are formally trained or self-taught as a web designer, there are rules, concepts and basic parameters for creating a functional and visually appealing website.
But there are always exceptions to the rules. The following examples definitely do not follow the rule book. In fact, it seems that the rule book was torn, pulverized, shredded [...]

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List of Tools to Get Color Schemes from Photographs or Web Sites - Color Palette Generators and Creators

July 18, 2008 – 12:12 pm

Here is a list of intuitive yet very simple and easy color scheme tools which web designers or graphic designers can find useful. Many of these tools will analyze a picture or photograph and provide you with a usable color scheme based on that image. Some of these tools will analyze a web site and provide you with a color palette. There are many useful color scheme generators, color schemers, and color palette creators below. I hope that you find them useful and utilize them for your future designs.

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