The Power of Color

Written by Joanne Glasspoole


Do you find it hard to choose color schemes for your Web designs? It is a question I get asked often. An effective color scheme can make or break your Web site. If it doesn't conveyrepparttar personality you are trying to achieve, you may end up alienatingrepparttar 134609 people you are trying so hard to get to notice you.

In my quest to design successful, attractive Web sites, I spend a lot of time picking colors. Making sure colors coordinate well with each other is not an easy task. But, withrepparttar 134610 right tools and a good sense of what looks right, you can achieverepparttar 134611 look and feel you desire.

Color hasrepparttar 134612 power to make us feel hungry, cool, warm, excited, sexy, joyful, sad. Can you imaginerepparttar 134613 world without color?

Following is a brief summary of some ofrepparttar 134614 emotions/feelings associated with color:

1. RED: warmth, love, anger, danger, boldness, excitement

2. ORANGE: cheerfulness, low cost, affordability

3. YELLOW: attention-grabbing, comfort, liveliness, cowardliness

4. GREEN: durability, reliability, environmental, luxurious, optimism, well-being

5. BLUE: professionalism, loyalty, reliability, honor, melancholia, boredom

Designing Professional Web Pages

Written by Joanne Glasspoole


If your Web site doesn't project a professional and polished image to your visitors, your credibility and that of your products and services will suffer. Image is everything--especially online where your competitor is only one mouse click away!

Before your first HTML code is written, you will need to consider your Web site's navigational structure, color scheme and page layout. Is your content developed? If not, who is going to write it?

Once you have donerepparttar necessary pre-planning, thenrepparttar 134608 fun part begins--coding your HTML pages.

Following are some steps to consider when laying out your Web pages:

(1) I highly recommend that you try to get your home page to fit on one screen. Ideally, people shouldn't have to scroll down to see what your site has to offer. You may need to make your graphics smaller, but that's okay. Smaller graphics mean a quicker download time.

(2) Be sure to check your pages at allrepparttar 134609 various screen resolutions. Although only a small percentage of users have their monitors set at 640x480, you will want to make sure your site looks good at that resolution. I design my Web pages at 800x600, which isrepparttar 134610 average resolution. However, more and more users have their computer monitors set at higher resolutions, such as 1024x728. You will see that your pages will look radically different depending onrepparttar 134611 resolution. I personally have been horrified at how ugly my "beautiful" pages look on different computer screens.

(3) Browsers are another very important consideration. Netscape and Internet Explorer both performrepparttar 134612 same function--display Web pages--butrepparttar 134613 way they do so is strikingly different.

Your code needs to be very clean and pretty much flawless to display correctly on Netscape. If you miss even one table tag (e.g., you forget to close a

tag), you will be mighty surprised when you get nothing but a blank page on Netscape. Internet Explorer is much more forgiving. It "assumes" what you meant to do. Netscape, onrepparttar 134614 other hand, is unassuming. If it doesn't understand your code, it simply will not display it.

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