One of the first things you need to concider when you are designing yur website is the color scheme. Once you decide on what colors you want to use and where you are going to place them the rest will normally fall into place with a little more planning. Choosing the wrong colors though can cause you to have a bad looking site no matter how good the rest of your design is.
Pay Attention to Contrast.
First of all, before you do anything else, you need to check that the colors you’ve chosen provide enough contrast for your text to be readable. Don’t put orange text on a yellow background, or red on blue, or anything like that. You should especially avoid using a lighter version of a color on top of a darker version of that same colour, or vice versa. You’ve got to make sure that your text is readable.
Never Use Black Backgrounds.
You can generally use whatever colors you like as part of your color scheme, but stay away from black backgrounds. It makes your website look ‘underground’ and threatening, not to mention old-fashioned. The only people who will like it will be dyed-in-the-wool computer nerds and people who get headaches from large areas of white. Read the rest of this entry