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How to Choose the Right Color for Your Website Comments Off on How to Choose the Right Color for Your Website

How to Choose the Right Color for Your Website

Posted by on Aug 25, 2017 in Design Articles

Your website is almost ready to go live, congratulations! But before you hit the live button you really need to step back and take a look at your color. That is correct, the color of your website can mean the difference between you getting the type of traffic that you are looking for versus not getting any traffic at all. You might have picked that color because you think it looks good or because it is your favorite color but in order for your website to work, the color has to be just perfect. According to an article, color is seen by our eyes and interpreted in our brains in a region known as the hypothalamus. What happens next is our thyroid glands will send signals and release hormones which will alter our emotions and mood which affect our behavior. This might all sound unimportant when all you want to do is build a website but remember this, if it relates to people than it is important to you because it is people that will be seeing your website. To get the biggest impact in your website you need to be skillful in your color selection in order to make the biggest impact on your customers/visitors. The idea is...

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5 Jobs You Might Have To Hire A Designer For If You Want Your Website To Look Amazing Comments Off on 5 Jobs You Might Have To Hire A Designer For If You Want Your Website To Look Amazing

5 Jobs You Might Have To Hire A Designer For If You Want Your Website To Look Amazing

Posted by on Feb 12, 2013 in Design Articles

They say that content is king and this is amazing because we can all put words onto paper. We learned how to write in school and even if you’ve forgotten how to do it without a handful of spelling mistakes and bad grammar it will only take you a few months of practice to rediscover the basics. This means within a short amount of time people can have a website up and running, but is this enough for a business to have great success? Is the written word all you need? You’ll soon discover it’s not and if you want your site to take off you will need a great design. Everything about a website needs to be visually beautiful because it doesn’t matter how great your words are if people don’t think your website looks equally as good. There are lots of reasons why this might be, but at the end of the day you need to maximize your chances of success and if you’re challenged when it comes to design work you might need to hire someone. Let’s look at some of the jobs you might need them to do. Start with the logo The logo is one of the easiest things you can design yourself and...

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5 Design Features To Remember For The Person Who Knows Nothing About Design

Posted by on Jan 12, 2013 in Design Articles

Most people who start building an online business are not professional designers. Most of them also happen to be poor, or just don’t want to invest money in their business when they’re starting out. Can you see how this could be a problem? In the olden days you could get a website built by someone who knew what they were doing, or you would have to go without. These days it’s all too easy to set your own website up and it means there’s a lot out there where the design is terrible.   You don’t have to spend thousands on your design if you want to build a business, at least not in the beginning, but you do need to understand a few things about design if you want to succeed. There’s a few websites that become a superstar even though they have a rubbish design, but you could sit and wait for years thinking it’s going to happen to you. Keep these in mind and get them fixed if you’ve messed them up. It’s your future business that’s at stake.   Choose a good theme   The difference in price when it comes to themes is minimal, but if you choose the right one it can be...

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Three Deadly Mistakes in Website Design

Posted by on Jul 11, 2012 in Design Articles

If you own a website, the last thing you want is the visitors to leave your website as soon as they land there simply because of poor website design. There are a number of factors that need to be considered while designing a websites. All your content is useless if it not presented in a nice way. As a blog owner, it is your responsibility to keep the visitors on your blog for as long as possible. This can be achieved by making a good selection of background, providing proper navigation and using the correct size fonts. This post provides detailed information the three deadly mistakes in website design that every webmaster must avoid. Using Obscure fonts One of the common website design mistake is the use of obscure font. This creates problems for the visitors and thus they can get irritated and compelled to move to other blogs. Using weird fonts make it hard for the people to read the text on your website. When we talk about the proper font, the font size is as important as the type of font. You should check different fonts with the particular theme and chose the one that provides the best readability. Another problem associated with using weird fonts is...

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7 Ways To Avoid Mishaps When Using Stock Photos Comments Off on 7 Ways To Avoid Mishaps When Using Stock Photos

7 Ways To Avoid Mishaps When Using Stock Photos

Posted by on Oct 1, 2011 in Design Articles

Stock images remain a fairly controversial issue in the world of design. There are some who believe that it is lazy to use someone else’s work, even if it is bought fairly. Maybe that is true; certainly, it is the easy way to generate images for a core design. But there are many reasons that we choose to go with stock photos rather than creating our own. The obvious one is the time and effort that are saved, which can then be put toward the design process itself. This can help to improve your finished product more than if you took the step of taking your own photos, which can be an exhaustive and time-consuming process. If you do choose to use stock, you should always go with the highest quality images you can find. Anything else looks cheap and badly created, and you won’t want to present that as the result of your hard work. Especially since a low quality stock image can take what was a brilliant design and ruin the effect. Here are seven tips on how to avoid using stock images the wrong way, and so corrupting the integrity of your design: 1. Know When Using Stock Is Appropriate Guess what? Using stock images are...

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