More about Color in Web Design
Read the following very carefully.
Choosing a web color palette is one of the first steps most web designers make when starting a new project. Hand-in-hand with layout, it is probably one of the most important design choices you will make. Colors evoke all kinds of associations and using colors well can create a synergy on your site that visitors will find attractive. Your web color palette can make or break your website.
Visitors to a web site have formed a positive or negative impression of any company within seconds of arriving at their web page. Web color, along with layout, organization, and other design elements, is a critical part of how that impression is formed. When planning an Internet strategy, consider what kind of message the site convey on the basis of web color alone.
Today's reading assignment you will read the following 2 articles: www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html
webdesign.about.com/cs/color/a/aacolorharmony.htm
Read this article carefully and follow the assignment below.
Today's assignment is to look online and find websites that are great examples of great color use, and bad examples of color use.
You will need to find 2 examples of good color use, and 2 examples of bad color use.
You will compose an email in your email account that will include "Color in Web Design" in the 'Subject' line of the email that you will send to me. This will be apart of your grade for this assignment.
In this email you will first include the url address of the website you've discovered, followed by whether or not it was a good or bad example.
Next, in your email you will include why the website was good or bad use of color.
What types of colors did they use?
Does the website use Primary, Secondary, or Tertiary colors?
Are they Harmonious Colors? What type? Complementary? Analogous?
Do the colors fit the mood of what the website is trying to project? Why?
Once your finished, email it to marty.ballew@shorelineschools.org.
Your email should use proper Netiquette and have correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
This assignment is due by the end of class TODAY.
Choosing a web color palette is one of the first steps most web designers make when starting a new project. Hand-in-hand with layout, it is probably one of the most important design choices you will make. Colors evoke all kinds of associations and using colors well can create a synergy on your site that visitors will find attractive. Your web color palette can make or break your website.
Visitors to a web site have formed a positive or negative impression of any company within seconds of arriving at their web page. Web color, along with layout, organization, and other design elements, is a critical part of how that impression is formed. When planning an Internet strategy, consider what kind of message the site convey on the basis of web color alone.
Today's reading assignment you will read the following 2 articles: www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html
webdesign.about.com/cs/color/a/aacolorharmony.htm
Read this article carefully and follow the assignment below.
Today's assignment is to look online and find websites that are great examples of great color use, and bad examples of color use.
You will need to find 2 examples of good color use, and 2 examples of bad color use.
You will compose an email in your email account that will include "Color in Web Design" in the 'Subject' line of the email that you will send to me. This will be apart of your grade for this assignment.
In this email you will first include the url address of the website you've discovered, followed by whether or not it was a good or bad example.
Next, in your email you will include why the website was good or bad use of color.
What types of colors did they use?
Does the website use Primary, Secondary, or Tertiary colors?
Are they Harmonious Colors? What type? Complementary? Analogous?
Do the colors fit the mood of what the website is trying to project? Why?
Once your finished, email it to marty.ballew@shorelineschools.org.
Your email should use proper Netiquette and have correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
This assignment is due by the end of class TODAY.
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