Written on November 1st, 2006 at 12:11 pm by Darren Rowse
Designing with Colour – Tips
Mark Boulton is running a helpful series on Five Simple Steps to Designing With Colour which those of us who are ‘design-challenged’ might find helpful.
He’s written two posts so far at here and here.
Mark is also putting together a book called Five Simple Steps – Designing for the Web which will no doubt be a good read (Mark’s someone who I read regularly and admire the work of) . It’s due out around Christmas time but you can sign up for a $5 discount.
6 Responses to “Designing with Colour – Tips” - Add Yours
Nick Wilson
November 1st, 2006 6:22 pm
If you put what he teaches together with this tool: http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html you can actually get some results pretty quick.
Im so shit at color it’s not even funny, but that does help.
Rt
November 1st, 2006 6:36 pm
I often wonder how important color design is to adsense success. I often change the colors of the ads and the background page but it is hard to measure success because results take so long to vary and often seem random. Oh well.
Bucktowndusty
November 2nd, 2006 3:36 am
Darren, put this link on your mental Rolodex http://www.colorblender.com (it’s worthy of it’s own post in my opinion.)
Regards
buck
Bucktowndusty
November 2nd, 2006 3:41 am
btw…Yes, Mark put together two very useful pages. Thanks Mark.
Regards
buck
Jose P
November 2nd, 2006 5:19 am
I have read in different sites about which colors seem to attract viewers/readers. On sales pitch sites, I often see red used quite a bit to attract the eyes.
But then again, who wants to design their site to reflect that of a sales pitch…. looks too much like a commercial.
One of the things I do is to look at home design magazines and see which colors are used in a living room or even bathroom design. I look for home designs that are inviting and copy those color palettes to a web design.
One example was of a design I did for a friend. He’s an unpublished book author and wanted a page design that reflected the colors found in a home library or studio. This is what we came up with http://www.lacruzsite.com…. it’s still under construction.
But I felt the colors were inviting and went well with his site’s topic.
Jjust a little secret I thought I’d share…lol
G.-mo
March 13th, 2007 5:44 am
Here´s my problem: I´d like to see my recent comments in the sidebar but when I put a html code from blogger help nothing happened….
Thought you might help, please.
Here is link to my site:
http://www.drumsclub.blogspot.com
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