Posted by Travis Newbury on 09/12/07 17:22

Ok, I have kept quite for several years now but the last site I looked
at made me speak up.

<rant>
One of the biggest design errors I see on most sites is the God awful
choices people choose for colors. The exact same design can go from
looks ok, to looks awesome by simply using a color chart or color
wheel to pick your colors. People do not realize how much color plays
a part in our lives and how we react to things, including selling
something or keeping one's attention.

There are a ton of free pallet creators that allow you to enter in the
base color (or an image) and it produced the color pallet for your
selection. google "color wheel" for a list. Most good drawing
programs have this functionality built in, or available as a macro or
add on.

Try it, if you used css it should be pretty easy to switch colors
around a little. Take you non complimentary color site and put it
side by side with one you used a color wheel on and see if that alone
does not improve the look of your site.
</rant>

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