Secret of Color Effect for Your Website

As you had seen three major categories of colors for your website in my previous post (click here to see it), now you’ll find out which colors are included in each parts. But you need to know that these categories of colors are just an approaching to help you to decide on what color you should use in your website. There’s no such a fixed rule to choose website color.

Fresh and cool colors: blue, green, purple, turquoise and silver.

Fresh colors are inclined to affect in giving relaxed sensation for people see it. Even though these colors are used in your personal website, they can look cold or impersonal. The followings are the meaning of colors included in fresh category.
Blue
-Positive: silence, love, loyalty, safety, trust, intelligence, related to sciences.
-Negative: coldness, fear, virility (manhood).
Green
-Positive: related to money, growth, fertility, freshness, healing/medication, calm.
-Negative: jealousy, fault, chaos, confusion, disorder.
Purple
Purple is combined from blue and red. Because of that, you’ll find it whether in harm category or fresh one.
-Positive: king, spirituality, luxury, ambition, aristocratic class.
-Negative: mystery, anxiety.
Turquoise
-Positive: shield, sophisticated, spiritual, recover.
-Negative: jealousy, femininity
Silver
-Positive: glamour, high, smooth, sleek, elegant.
-Negative: dreamer, not honest.

Warm colors: red, pink, yellow, orange, purple and gold.

Warm colors are inclined to have desire effect to look. Because of that, if you use these colors for your website, they will stimulate, wake violence and anger emotions up. The followings are the meaning of colors included in warm category.
Red
-Positive: love, energy, power, might, hot.
-Negative: anger, danger, alert, impatience, misery.
Pink
-Positive: health, happiness, sweet, funny, pity.
-Negative: weakness, femininity, immaturity.
Yellow
-Positive: bright, smart, energy, sun, creativity, happiness.
-Negative: irresponsibility, instability, coward.
Purple
-Positive: king, spirituality, luxury, ambition, aristocratic class.
-Negative: mystery, anxiety.
Gold
-Positive: wealth, riches, worth, traditional.
-Negative: dreamer, greediness.

Neutral colors: brown, grey, white, black, tan, ivory color.

Neutral colors are great choices to associate with warm or cool palette. Neutral colors are very good to be background in a website. Just add black color to create darker and calmness beside main color. The followings are the meaning of colors included in neutral category.
Black
-Positive: shield, dramatic, serious, elegant, formal.
-Negative: secret, death, disaster, crime, mystery.
Grey
-Positive: safety, reliability, intelligence, density.
-Negative: sad, conservative.
Brown
-Positive: friendly, earth, outdoor, long life.
-Negative: dogmatic, conservative.
Tan (smooth wool which is still white)
-Positive: flexibility, curly, dependence.
-Negative: boring, conservative, blunt.
Ivory color
-Positive: relaxed, comfortable, purity, warmness.
-Negative: weak, unstable.
White
-Positive: goodness, innocence, purity, fresh, simple, clean.
-Negative: winter, cold, far.

There’s no definite fixed rule to color your website, thus it’s just still up to you. Although so, there are some considerations to choose good website color so that visitor will feel comfortable and enjoyed to stay in your good-colored website for a long time. What should you consider to choose your website color? See you next post, and if I have a chance, I’ll give you a pdf book about color.

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Choosing Right Color for Your Website

Just like what I’ve explained before this post, choosing right color for your website really has significant effect in visitors’ responses about your website. Choose right color that is suitable to your website theme. For example, if your website contains information about tourism, choose modern colors such as red, blue, orange, etc. The important, choose eye-catching color for users in order to make them curious and want to know further information about your website.

Yes, you are right. Choosing color for a website is depending on what color which webmaster likes so much. Web developers must comply with color desired by webmaster. A web developer needs to know (get reference) what color webmaster likes so that until developing process, a drastically color changing won’t occur. Web developer is also not allowed to force himself to choose color according to his own taste.

Color of a website has its own meaning, and only webmaster who knows about the meaning. You should consider the meaning of colors you’ll use while building a professional website. Colors have positive and negative meaning because they will affect visitor emotion to decide next step (leave or stay and continue on your website). Colors can be divided to three parts namely:

1. Fresh and cool color
2. Warm color
3. Neutral color

Which colors are classified in those three parts and suitable for your website? Just wait for the answer; I hope I can help you to choose right website color. You can add comment if you have something to talk about. See you in the next post.

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Decide What Web Category You Want To Create

Website that is made by a web developer must really represent/reflect identity of a institute. The content must not be contrary to website form and its own layout. There are some points you have to consider, one of them is about website category. For example, if a web developer has job to make a children website, he/she should know things related to children world including matter about choosing font, color combination, graphic usage, animation, and other supporting elements.

Choosing used color and font type is absolutely important to give a good and long-lasting impression in user/visitor mind. Such as, if you create children website, you should use bright colors that children like, you can also insert some images and animations that can wake user passion up to spend more time to read available information.

It’s better not to insert many whether animations or images in reference website category, such as: dictionary, library and others.

Although I’ve not found yet a formal website that categorizes about each website, the following is little information may help you to classify websites based on category:

1. Business and economy website: association & organization, e-commerce and service, finance & investment, business center and others.
2. News and media website: book, magazine, online media, news portal, radio, newspaper, tabloid, television, etc.
3. Entertainment website: film, games, humor, music, ringtone, celebrity and others.
4. Personal website: photo gallery, blog/weblog, student, friend, colleague and family, about teen, tips and tricks and others.
5. Information website: business and economy, job information, city information, life style, buy and sell, science and technology, etc.
6. Computer and internet website: database, graphic design, hacking, internet and web, networking, multimedia, programming, hardware, software, tutorial and others.
7. Organization website: business, politics, professional, religion, science and technology, social foundation, etc.
8. Sport website: water sport, baseball, self-defense, basketball, volley ball, bowling, badminton, chess, golf, automotive, football, skateboard, tennis, boxing and others.
9. Health website: association, fitness and spa, medical, alternative medication, hospital, etc.
10. Government website: government department, law, embassy, politics, ministry, military and others.
11. Education website: children, student association, language, computer, course and training, university, high school, etc.
12. Reference website: encyclopedia, dictionary, library, history, museum, map and others.
13. Recreation website: temple, lake, mountain, swimming pool, beach, games, etc.
14. Science and technology website: research, observation, efficient technology and others.
15. Art and craft website: ancient good, culture and tradition, museum and gallery, visual art, design art and others.
16. Social and culture website: religion, children, hobby, family, community, environment and others.
17. Tourism website: tourism agency, activity, hotel, information and tips, transportation service, restaurant, tourism guide, etc.

There are still many categories I’ve not yet mentioned it. Do you get yours?

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Tips For Webmaster (Or Webmaster-To-Be) To Reach The Goal

Hello, nice to see you again. As what I promised you in my previous post, what are tips for you if you are webmaster (or webmaster-to-be)? OK, I’ll try to give you some brief tips you should consider. Here are some tips for webmaster (or webmaster-to-be) to give some consideration for web developer that creating website will run along smoothly on the road you want and won’t miss the target and purpose:

1. Take a survey with search engine about sample existing websites and business competitor websites that are been long before. Investigate the websites carefully, if it’s necessary you can write important points which the websites have relied on. This will be really helpful for you to decide website content to be displayed.
2. From result of the survey, write down in detail what you want about website content you want to create. The note you’ve written will be controller to divide between important necessary part and not one. But, if you don’t have big budget, you can give precedence to the important points to display on you website.
3. Make a sketch of page layout (scratch on a paper using pencil to make named boxes). Imagine your website layout that you will make. Arrange main eye-catching part on top first and additional part on another side. Also try to always make other page if each page has different form.
4. List used keywords as search reference. Think carefully about you website content to find suitable keyword so that users can find you website quickly according to keyword you’ve decided. If you have keyword more than one, sort the keywords according to priority.
5. Recheck the contents in you website before launching. This will make it easy to maintain your website before getting online.

Never tired to always learn and learn is the only key to success. Have you been tired?

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Webmaster Entrust All Developments To Web Developer?

Web that is often visited by people will give more value for a web designer. Total amount of coming visitors can be indicator for someone whether succeeds or not in designing and developing a professional website.

There are some elements concerning the success, namely: usability, fast connection process, exciting view, appropriate color blending, easy-to-use-and-understand navigation, and many more (you can see my previous post “BASIC CONCEPT OF BUILDING A WEBSITE series”). There’s one more thing, it’s all depend on visitor/user response to our website we’ve created.

It’s a common thing now that website is a part of an institute identity, has same importance with company address. Website can be guide for customer to know more about an institute online. There are some advantages so that many people need its existence:

• Have online address
• Unlimited broad reach that is accessible for users in worldwide indefinitely non stop (24/7).
• Can be our personal/company identity about self profile in order that can be known by customer when we run a business. With this, communication will occur easily.
• Personal site may have function as spokesperson to pour idea, criticism, suggestion, sharing knowledge, and other conscience you to write. In the end, it will be “image branding” for concerning person. This has been done by many people, and it’s proven that many people become “IT celebrity” just because of their article on their personal sites.
• Website will reflect personality or image of a company if features provided are interactive enough and dynamic.

These benefits will never show up if form and feature of website is messy. It depends on how web developer visualizes company profile into website. Although so, webmaster also has to get involved in creating and developing interactive dynamic website in order to make it fit to wanted goal and purpose. Just few webmaster have realized this. Generally, webmaster entrust all developments to web developer.

So, what are tips for webmaster? Just wait for next post to give me time to take a breath and continue my university study, ; p

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BASIC CONCEPT OF BUILDING A WEBSITE part VI

Wwhooooaaaa....... exam is always exhausting....
Very long with no any post. And this is the end of BASIC CONCEPT OF BUILDING A WEBSITE series. Later, I want to collect it into .pdf so you all can download it ^_^, please wait....

Navigation

Navigation also becomes important thing in a website. Its function is to help user to explore our website looking for needed information with ease. Nice navigation reflects good structured website.

You’ll find some navigation formats:

1. Navigation Panel

• Usually in orderly arranged menus format.
• It’s better to put link on left side (from your hand) or on top area from a web page.
• It can be text or graphic.
• It shouldn’t place too many space.
• Navigation position would rather be same on each page. If you can’t, use different color.

2. Home Button

• This button is so familiar in web developer circle. Main function of this button is to return to homepage.
• Home button can be placed on each web page unless on main page (homepage).
• Either home button or your logo can be functioned as navigation and better put them on left side (from your side).
• Make sure that both home button and you logo are available on every page (except on main page) so that visitor will be more familiar to the navigation.

3. Link

• If text has hyperlink, it’ll be better to underline it.
• Visitors shouldn’t see mouse over or hover format in a link to make them realize that the text is a link – create real link.
• Give more textual link in a website to allow visitor get reference information.
• Try to prepare link structure list in real format rather than hidden inside a text. Link inside a text brings on bit slowness in reading process, but this may be a good choice to highlight particular words.
• Make difference between internal links (link to inside website) from external links (link to another website).
• If the link is still in one website (internal link), create link using simple text. If the link directs to another website (external link), type its complete address in text (example: http://www.anotherwebsite.com). This thing will inform visitor about another website before to click the link.
• If you put external link on your website, don’t create link that will open new window using target “_blank”. This will annoy visitors.
• Avoid “back button” – general command to return to previous page.
• If you have link in big size file format such as .avi or .pdf, type the size in KB inside parentheses to give visitors information about related file size before downloading.
• Make visitors know about link they have visited (clicked) with giving different colors. For example, from blue to red (it means that blue link is unvisited and red one is visited).

4. HTML Title

• Generally placed in header HTML tag.
• HTML title (as header) should be relevant to present page.
• Displayed on top (top title bar) in a browser.
• HTML title is very useful for who needs to bookmark your site.

5. Site Map

• Site Map is a part of website page that gives information about site map.
• Site map is structure of a website enclosed with links to whole relevant pages.
• Has glaring link to site map of each page.

6. Search Facility

• Some visitors prefer to use search facility before using other available navigation.
• Some visitors use search facility as the latest facility to use.
• Make sure that search facility is available on your site.
• Place search box at eye-catching position on each page.

7. Graphic as Navigation and/or Link

• Several web developers use graphic/image as link or navigation. Beware if you do that.
• If you set border=”0” on graphic tag, this may be unclear way for visitor when you want to inform visitor that the graphic is a link.
• If graphic/image is not in mouseover, visitor may not see cursor change to a hand.
• Try to always make textual link for same information as graphic.
• If you prefer aesthetic value, set border=”1” for graphic/image as a link.

OK. I hope this is useful for you (especially beginner). Do you have any idea about this blog? Is there something I should write in this blog? Feel free to ask or comment here about anything useful for us......
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