A Quick Rule of Design The wants of the many out way the wants the few or the one. As a designer what you prefer or what you know is a better design may.
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A Quick Rule of Design
The wants of the many out way the wants the few or the one.
As a designer what you prefer or what you know is a better design may not be what the
audience wants to see.
Why not put up text only? I could throw up a text page in one
afternoon, (I could throw one up in an hour) but that would leave a bad impression on a viewer.
A computer club shouldn’t have a throw together home page.
Why Use Color and Images?
The home page is the first impression a person has of your organization or club.
Add color and print becomes art Art as I see it is any
human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species two basic instincts:
Survival and Reproduction
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
2 aspects of choosing colors Viewing Technology
Web safe colorsHow powerful are the
viewers computers?How fast is the internet
connection?Type of browsers:
broad or narrow
Audience
Function Vs. Form Content Vs.
Images and animation
Viewing Technology
How powerful are the computers?How fast is the internet connection?
Web safe colors – To use or not to use?Type of browsers:
broad or narrow
In our club there are many different browsers being used.
Web safe colorsThe web-safe or browser-safe palette consists
of 216 colors that should remain stable across Mac and Windows platforms.
If you use the Web-safe palette, you’re likely to achieve greater consistency with your designs
The diversity of the club requires that we stick to a ‘safe’ palette
www.webtechniques.com
Colors Effect Emotions Red + is associated with blood, and with feelings that
are energetic, exciting, passionate or erotic. - The downside of red evokes aggressive
feelings, suggesting anger or violence.
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Orange + is the color of flesh, or the friendly warmth of
the hearth fire. The positive implications of this color suggest approachability, informality.
_ The negative side might imply accessibility to
the point of suggesting that anyone can approach-- a lack of discrimination or quality.
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Yellow + is the color of sunshine. This color is optimistic,
upbeat, modern. - The energy of yellow can become
overwhelming. Therefore yellow is not a color that tends to dominate fashion for long periods of time.
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Green + In its positive mode, green suggests nature
(plant life, forests), life, stability, restfulness, naturalness.
- On the other hand, green in some tones or
certain contexts (such as green skin) might instead suggest decay (fungus, mold), toxicity, artificiality.
Blue + suggests coolness, distance, spirituality, or
perhaps reserved elegance. Some shade of blue is flattering to almost anyone.
- In its negative mode, we can think of the
"blues"-the implication being one of sadness, passivity, alienation, or depression.
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Violet +is the color of fantasy, playfulness,
impulsiveness, and dream states. -In its negative mode, it can suggest nightmares,
or madness.
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Color it white
Use white. Use space. Please! White in its nothingness acts as a wonderful
balance between colors. You can also make your Web pages easy on the eyes by leaving plenty of white space, or empty space between page elements, in your layout especially if your site is rich in content (text).
http://coolhompages.com
Dynamic and white
The colors for our site were chosen too.
A. Create a dynamic and friendly lookB. White was used to keep the
content easy to read over a wide range of browsesrs
Function Vs. Form The members of Seoul CC seem to
be interested in content of over flash.
The site, while colorful, is easy to navigate with a minimum of pages.
Note the navigation bar is ready for expansion
This image is
beautifully rendered and enhances the site and promotes the movie.
What do we at Seoul CC have to work with?
Optimize your images
Images should be in a gif or jpeg format
Images should be the same size as the cell or are they are set in
Final Tips Preview and edit, edit, edit
Preview in a variety of browsers
Preview with different monitor settings
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