Monday, August 08, 2005
web design
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Web design principles
COLOR
RED is passion, love, danger, power, and strength but can also be blood, violence, war. Bad for some color-blind people. Watch out!
PINK is for girls, for selling feminine things, and is sometimes seen as weak. Don’t use it unless that’s what you want to sell.
ORANGE is vibrant, warm, and lively; it’s very popular on the web.
YELLOW is sunshine, happiness, growth, and gold; also, dishonesty, jealousy, and illness. Its lightness stimulates people (to click) but a whole page in yellow might be trouble.
GREEN is nature, environment, youth, spring but also envy. Could be trouble for color-blind.
PURPLE is royalty and love, but also cruelty, arrogance, and mourning.
BROWN is earthy, outdoors and warm, but considered dirty and dull.
GRAY is modern, intelligent, solid, clean, but also boring, dull, sad, and old.
BLUE is peaceful, calm, life-giving, and fresh, but dark blue is corporate/government (not good for theyoung and lively)
WHITE is clean, pure, peaceful, and snowy (good for skiers) but death (in Eastern cultures) and sterile.
BLACK is power, elegance, magic, and night, but death in the US, sad, and evil.
MOVEMENT:
If you have movement, for example a line or a picture that is moving as you open the page, use the movement of the viewer’s eye well. TAKE THE VIEWER WHERE YOU WANT HIM/HER to go. Direct their attention to a GOOD PLACE.
AVOID BLINKING, TOO MUCH MOVEMENT, or OVERACTIVITY.
CROWDEDNESS
Crowded is bad. The viewer won’t rest, won’t read, won’t stay, won’t click.
CONTRAST
Contrast is necessary, especially between type and background. There should be strong contrast.
ALIGNMENT
Alignment is good and peaceful. Aligning to the left is most common. Links are usually on the left.
TEXT
Text should not be in all bold, all italics, or all capitals.
SIMPLICITY and CLEANLINESS are valued.
What do you think? Is this different from web design in your culture? What can you add to this
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
SIU stuff
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optimal web design: bibliography (Wichita State)-good
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