Archive for the ‘Web design’ Category

CSS style sample page

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Nice, you can see the same content with different CSS layouts by clicking.

http://www.csszengarden.com/

CSS web page 3 column layout

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

A bit much for my meager brain, but this appears to be an elegant 3 column layout system using CSS.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail 

Hiding email addresses

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Nice description of various methods to hide email addresses on a web page.

http://www.csarven.ca/hiding-email-addresses

WoW Web Sites

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Selected web sites:

http://www.wellvetted.com/

Web and colors

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Newly added site: http://www.allwebdesignresources.com/webdesignblogs/graphics/webdesigncolorcombinationsguide/

I havent’ been to the above site yet, other than for a cursory glance, but it does seem to have some good pointers.
Links

I was browsing around the web for a color wheel to help decide on some colors for a web site and found the following great sites.

First, about the meanings of color:

http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/color/a/colormeanings.htm so, once a main color is picked (say brown for the color of a grocery bag) then we can use the tools below to select the other color options and select them based on the meaning of color…well, I don’t know if that makes sense but I’m trying.

Now to pick colors:

http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/default.asp This site has some great tools

http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html with great point mouse interface for determining the html color.

http://chem.csustan.edu/JTB/HELP/COLOR/color-index.htm with a nice simple wheel.

http://shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=74 with a great explaination of web color combinations, particularly for the web. Also has info on graphic dithering.

http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html WoW. I’m not sure what it’s teaching but it’s a great toy to play with…maybe there is something there to learn.

https://www.customlogocases.com/blog/choosing-brand-colors/\ Nice overview of how to think about colors in marketing