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Selection of colors for the site
Coloring the appearance of the site is of great importance and with a professional approach allows the web designer to create the necessary atmosphere of the resource, corresponding to its subject and purpose. The ability of the developer to correctly manipulate the color scheme is one of the most important factors indicating a high degree of professionalism. In order for the color palette used for site design to evoke the necessary emotions and push the site visitors to certain actions, the selection of its components, that is, colors, should strictly adhere to the most important rules of color theory. Therefore, before you begin the process of developing graphic elements of the site, you must carefully consider the color scheme, which will form the basis of the design solution. It must be remembered that the art of literate design is an important feature of a successful web designer, which is acquired only by experience. Continue reading
How to overcome the creative crisis of designers?
Are these lines read by creative people or those who identify themselves with them? If so, then they surely know the times, both of the crazy creative eruption and of creative stagnation. I, at least, are familiar (we will assume that this suggests that I am a real creator :)) Stagnation in our country, dizigners can happen for a great many reasons, such as: sleep, hunting, stupid customer, muse left or favorite song Winamp is over. Everyone has their own. The question arises: “How the hell did you really push creativeness and creative thinking painlessly?” Honestly, I truly believe that it is possible to somehow select from the total mass of options, several that act most effectively and on the greatest number of people. Continue reading
How to make a color palette for the site and not only (algorithm + tips)
In Design Mania, there were already several publications with a similar theme: in a note about color matching services for websites, besides inspiration resources, we looked at a couple of useful web tools; there was also a post with an overview of palette generators, etc. However, without an understanding of the logic of how to make a color palette, they may all be ineffective. Today we will try to fill this gap and clarify some theoretical points that are well described in this article.
Those of you who have already used the new-fashioned online generators are aware of their working principle: first you choose some basic values, set up a number of parameters (the names of which resemble some musical terms), and then you get a list of 4- 5 shades recommended for developing web projects. Continue reading