Understand Your Color

Written by Lala C. Ballatan


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A simple color wheel isrepparttar most critical tool you can use in order to mix colors and eventually gain a painter’s way of thinking regarding to color and color combinations. You also have to knowrepparttar 132210 principles in understandingrepparttar 132211 three main sets of color schemes fromrepparttar 132212 color wheel. These three main sets are analogous, complimentary, and monochromatic.

Analogous - adjacent to each other onrepparttar 132213 color wheel. If you pick any range of colors between two points of either triangle on our color wheel (ie yellow to red, orange to violet, red to blue, etc), you will have an analogous color scheme.

Complementary - consist of colors located opposite each other onrepparttar 132214 color wheel, such as green and red, yellow and violet, or orange and blue. But don’t ever commitrepparttar 132215 error of placing complementary colors on top of one another. Some colors are also not directly analogous but are not complementary either. Watch out for colors like cyan and red.

Monochromatic – is when you create an imaging using only tints and shades of one color.

Many variations of these three color schemes has been coordinated since. But these three arerepparttar 132216 foundation principles. Basically, in order to understand color and come up with nice color combinations for Web design and application, just keep your eyes open and befriendrepparttar 132217 color wheel! -30-

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Lala C. Ballatan is a 26 year-old Communication Arts graduate. Book reading has always been her greatest passion -- mysteries, horrors, psycho-thrillers, historical documentaries and classics. Her writing prowess began as early as she was 10 years old in girlish diaries. With writing, she felt freedom – to express her viewpoints and assert it, to bring out all concerns -- imagined and observed, to bear witness.


How to Create an Enjoyable Web Page Design

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Having readable pages are important – Avoid dark colored backgrounds and heavily patterned pages in your site. This tends to make your text confusing and hard to ready. Most visitors do not find it enjoyable to spend time in a Web site that they have difficulty deciphering. This also goes with small sized texts and very large texts where text that is too large can make it appear as if you are screaming at your viewers.

Technical jargons are a no-no – avoidrepparttar use of technical jargons that will just be ignored by readers. Make your users understand you and you will be able to connect with your target audience.

Create templates for consistency – allrepparttar 132208 elements in your site is guaranteed to be consistent if you provide a template. Havingrepparttar 132209 navigation system and all common elements inrepparttar 132210 same place throughout your site is a great help. It makes it easier for your visitors to find information, and enjoy their experience. Having a template for you to work from makes creating new pages easier.

Use CSS style sheets – to have your users be instructed easily on how to getrepparttar 132211 contents of your page userepparttar 132212 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). There are several typographical information that you’ll found in CSS such as fonts, font size, colors, and spacing.

Frames are not advisable – in dividingrepparttar 132213 Web page into multiple windows, some designers use frames as a technique. The reasons for not using them tend to outweighrepparttar 132214 reasons to use them since several browsers still do not support frame sites. Search engine optimization is affected then. It is best to create non-frames site first and then see if frames adds any functionality that your visitors would miss.

These elements are basic principles that any designer must live by. By remembering them, you will find even more reasons to enjoy brandishing your skills in Web design and make users enjoy your Web pages, too. -30-

For comments and inquiries aboutrepparttar 132215 article visit http://www.ucreative.com

Lala C. Ballatan is a 26 year-old Communication Arts graduate. Book reading has always been her greatest passion -- mysteries, horrors, psycho-thrillers, historical documentaries and classics. Her writing prowess began as early as she was 10 years old in girlish diaries. With writing, she felt freedom – to express her viewpoints and assert it, to bring out all concerns -- imagined and observed, to bear witness.


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