It’s essential your website have great colors
another article in the Internet Skills series
Since web surfing is now such a part of everyday life, every opportunity must be taken for your website to be distinctive. Color is the best way to make a good impression.
Color selections need to be appropriate for your audience. Say the right thing through the communication of color. Combining great color with excellent web structure, user interaction and page layout will definitely allow users to focus attention and hopefully stay longer.
There are many websites intended to assist web designers as well as the regular WordPress author to get better results in choosing prepared layout colors and color combinations.
But what if you want to do something distinctive, not a typical color template? Do you know and understand how colors are derived and labeled for monitors and viewing the Web?
Jemima Pereira has created a quality website that is free for any use, The 4096 Color Wheel.
The 4096 website cites the history of color on the WWW and how improvements have evolved. (click “about”) Current web color technology is now in Hexadecimal form. This Hex format is what allows computer monitors, (and television screens) to display over 16 million combinations of Red, Green and Blue.
4096 of the color combinations are web smart . Web safe is now an outdated term.*
Many instructional websites can help you learn more about the Hex numbering system. Charts will show you exact colors by # code. You can choose individual colors you might want to change for your website, where this is allowed, if you use one of the prepared content systems, such as WordPress and Joomla!.
While you want your website to reflect your individuality and your product, there are also well written on-line guides on what works and what doesn’t work. It depends on what you are doing with your website(s). Millions of dollars have been invested in research on what colors reach viewers best. Take advantage of it. Do your own color research up front.
*The term Websafe refers to an earlier era when there were 216 colors that displayed reliably across all browsers and operating systems. This is not important any more since most computers can display millions of colors.
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