Color use on Web pages

[Guest]

I need some help. I'm rebuilding our website for my boss. I'm new at this,
but have been reading a lot and understand the basics of color use and such
on web pages. My problem is in explaining this to my boss. He likes things
to "stand out" on the page and thus would like to use multiple colors of text
on one page. He also seems to pick the brightest, most obnoxious colors
possible, not worrying about whether the colors compliment each other or
completely clash. Does anyone know of any really good resources/articles
that I could share with him to give him a general idea of "what not to do on
a website" regarding colors? (or, am I completely wrong and shouldn't worry
about using the brightest colors that clash in various places throughout
text?)

 

[Guest]

http://www.stickysauce.com/articles/webdesignarticles/webdesigntips_articlesindex.htm

Try the above, has all kinds of pointers. Hope this helps

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28aka:_Crash_Gordo]

Ha..arguing with the boss or the client on colors..my favorite topic! I've given up arguing..now I just design it the way they want it. Then splash it on the screen and ask for opinions...it's usually pretty fun that way



| I need some help. I'm rebuilding our website for my boss. I'm new at this,
| but have been reading a lot and understand the basics of color use and such
| on web pages. My problem is in explaining this to my boss. He likes things
| to "stand out" on the page and thus would like to use multiple colors of text
| on one page. He also seems to pick the brightest, most obnoxious colors
| possible, not worrying about whether the colors compliment each other or
| completely clash. Does anyone know of any really good resources/articles
| that I could share with him to give him a general idea of "what not to do on
| a website" regarding colors? (or, am I completely wrong and shouldn't worry
| about using the brightest colors that clash in various places throughout
| text?)

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

Here's a great place:

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
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| I need some help. I'm rebuilding our website for my boss. I'm new at
this,
| but have been reading a lot and understand the basics of color use and
such
| on web pages. My problem is in explaining this to my boss. He likes
things
| to "stand out" on the page and thus would like to use multiple colors of
text
| on one page. He also seems to pick the brightest, most obnoxious colors
| possible, not worrying about whether the colors compliment each other or
| completely clash. Does anyone know of any really good resources/articles
| that I could share with him to give him a general idea of "what not to do
on
| a website" regarding colors? (or, am I completely wrong and shouldn't
worry
| about using the brightest colors that clash in various places throughout
| text?)

 

[Andrew Murray]

the general rule of thumb is to use "web safe" colours - 216 of the most likely
colours that are going to look OK on a majority of systems - i.e. some colours
look very different on different computers with different video cards, monitors
etc even different between say Macs and PC's.

 

[clintonG]

Andrew -- the practice of using web safe colors became obsolete
several years ago. Most computers are now sold with 32 bit graphics
adapters and the vendors configure the machine to use 'Highest' color
quality before shipping to retailers.

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Architectural & e-Business Consulting -- Software Development
NET (e-mail address removed)
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/

 

[Murray]

Yep - I agree with Clinton on this one. Web safe colors are so... 1990's.

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28aka:_Crash_Gordo]

How about AOL colors?


| Yep - I agree with Clinton on this one. Web safe colors are so... 1990's.
|
| --
| Murray
|
| | > the general rule of thumb is to use "web safe" colours - 216 of the most
| > likely
| > colours that are going to look OK on a majority of systems - i.e. some
| > colours
| > look very different on different computers with different video cards,
| > monitors
| > etc even different between say Macs and PC's.
| >
| >
| > | >> I need some help. I'm rebuilding our website for my boss. I'm new at
| >> this,
| >> but have been reading a lot and understand the basics of color use and
| >> such
| >> on web pages. My problem is in explaining this to my boss. He likes
| >> things
| >> to "stand out" on the page and thus would like to use multiple colors of
| >> text
| >> on one page. He also seems to pick the brightest, most obnoxious colors
| >> possible, not worrying about whether the colors compliment each other or
| >> completely clash. Does anyone know of any really good resources/articles
| >> that I could share with him to give him a general idea of "what not to do
| >> on
| >> a website" regarding colors? (or, am I completely wrong and shouldn't
| >> worry
| >> about using the brightest colors that clash in various places throughout
| >> text?)
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Murray]

Seems to work OK, but what is it that I am missing here? Does AOL have a
set of proprietary colors?

--
Murray

"Rob Giordano (aka: Crash Gordon®)" <[email protected]>
wrote in message How about AOL colors?


| Yep - I agree with Clinton on this one. Web safe colors are so... 1990's.
|
| --
| Murray
|
| | > the general rule of thumb is to use "web safe" colours - 216 of the most
| > likely
| > colours that are going to look OK on a majority of systems - i.e. some
| > colours
| > look very different on different computers with different video cards,
| > monitors
| > etc even different between say Macs and PC's.
| >
| >
| > | >> I need some help. I'm rebuilding our website for my boss. I'm new at
| >> this,
| >> but have been reading a lot and understand the basics of color use and
| >> such
| >> on web pages. My problem is in explaining this to my boss. He likes
| >> things
| >> to "stand out" on the page and thus would like to use multiple colors
of
| >> text
| >> on one page. He also seems to pick the brightest, most obnoxious
colors
| >> possible, not worrying about whether the colors compliment each other
or
| >> completely clash. Does anyone know of any really good
resources/articles
| >> that I could share with him to give him a general idea of "what not to
do
| >> on
| >> a website" regarding colors? (or, am I completely wrong and shouldn't
| >> worry
| >> about using the brightest colors that clash in various places
throughout
| >> text?)
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Clark]

It's probably a color version of AOL keywords. Pablum for the pedestrians.

 

[Murray]

LOL. Then I KNOW I won't worry about it!

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28aka:_Crash_Gordo]

I believe it does, or used to.


| Seems to work OK, but what is it that I am missing here? Does AOL have a
| set of proprietary colors?
|
| --
| Murray
|
| "Rob Giordano (aka: Crash Gordon®)" <[email protected]>
| wrote in message | How about AOL colors?
|
|
| | | Yep - I agree with Clinton on this one. Web safe colors are so... 1990's.
| |
| | --
| | Murray
| |
| | | | > the general rule of thumb is to use "web safe" colours - 216 of the most
| | > likely
| | > colours that are going to look OK on a majority of systems - i.e. some
| | > colours
| | > look very different on different computers with different video cards,
| | > monitors
| | > etc even different between say Macs and PC's.
| | >
| | >
| | > | | >> I need some help. I'm rebuilding our website for my boss. I'm new at
| | >> this,
| | >> but have been reading a lot and understand the basics of color use and
| | >> such
| | >> on web pages. My problem is in explaining this to my boss. He likes
| | >> things
| | >> to "stand out" on the page and thus would like to use multiple colors
| of
| | >> text
| | >> on one page. He also seems to pick the brightest, most obnoxious
| colors
| | >> possible, not worrying about whether the colors compliment each other
| or
| | >> completely clash. Does anyone know of any really good
| resources/articles
| | >> that I could share with him to give him a general idea of "what not to
| do
| | >> on
| | >> a website" regarding colors? (or, am I completely wrong and shouldn't
| | >> worry
| | >> about using the brightest colors that clash in various places
| throughout
| | >> text?)
| | >
| | >
| |
| |
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