Using Colors theme express your site's mood and personality

[kedar]

Did you know that a site visitor forms his or her first impression about your site within the first nine seconds of a visit? Making sure your color scheme is in contour with your site's content and visitors, is very important. You want the color scheme to enhance your site and it's content, not distract or confuse your users.

The best Web sites load in about 10 seconds at 28.8 Kbps. We may have DSL or cable modems, but 93 percent of your customers don't. Plus, all sorts of things further slow down download times. But the bottom line is that nobody is going to wait more than 10 to 15 seconds for your page to appear. Want your site to appeal to most people? Well, most people still surf at speeds under 56K, have their monitors set for 800 x 600 resolution, and don't even know they can change that, much less how.

Colors express your site's values, goals, and personality (as well as that of the company it represents). To illustrate, it lets looks at two retailers interfaces:

Color gives users cues as to your site's navigation, grouping of content, importance, relationships, etc. For this reason, color is an essential element of Web site design.

Most of the people relate to color similarly online and offline. Visitors to your site, whether they know it or not, respond to colors and other visual elements on your web site

on a psychological level. An intrigued (and non-confused) site visitor is more likely to engage in the goal of your site -- whether it is meant to inform, entertain, or to sell

goods or services.

Lets get down to some of the most evident ways to make sure your site's color are in harmony with your site's messages:

Some common color meanings/associations:.

Red is associated with blood, and with feelings that are energetic, exciting, passionate or erotic. Most colors carry both positive and negative implications. The downside of red evokes aggressive feelings, suggesting anger or violence.

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.

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.

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.

Violet is the color of fantasy, playfulness, impulsiveness, and dream states. In its negative mode, it can suggest nightmares, or madness.


A beautiful Website that gets no traffic and makes no money might as well be an ugly Website. An ugly Website that has traffic and makes money gets more beautiful by

the dollar.

[carl owen]

Yes, I do agree to you as the appearance of the site does make a very strong impact on the visitor and this is usually seen at the beginning when the visitor visits the website or the webpage. Due to this reason we should also make sure that the look of our website is very good so that the visitors like to visit our website quite often. We should also make sure that our website is user friendly and the content of the website is also good enough so that the visitors can find the things they want quite easily.

[kedar]

thank you for replying on my thread

[Richie D]

Yes that's very true. First impression is the last impression. The color combinations used for a particular website does convey its importance and Quality to the visitors. Everything that looks good is assume to be good by a large extent. It also provides you with some no verbal tools to communicate your message across to the masses.

[kedar]

Thanks Richie for replying

we are searching more convenient tools for improving site's professionalism in internet market

hope u will share your knowledge with me

thanks again

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kedar