Website Customization: What can we do?


Nowadays, in this trendy world, people get very uptight when they do not look entirely presentable. This would also be the case in web designing.

Every individual would definitely want their website to look good, if not, to the best they can. Here are a few things we could look out for when wanting to create a professional looking webpage.

Color Schemes and Themes.

When designing, always choose matching colors. An example of a matching color would be to have a dark background, with visible words and designs. With the dark theme, try not to mix too many bright colors into the design. What we should NEVER do, is to mix two very different colors, such as purple and yellow. Now, of course, it would depend on the purpose of the website, but those two colors are too striking for one who wants it to look more professional.

Themes must always suit the company or rather, the organization / etc. If the website was made to cater for a food company, it would be wise to stick to that particular category, rather than to revert to a different theme, such as machinery.

Fonts should be used in regard to the formality of the website. A simple sans-serif font would suffice in most cases. Exceptional cases such as design and art groups might want to use fanciful designs and fonts. Of course, that’s only if you know what you’re doing.

Finally, we must always try to think of our visitors, see the way they see. The resolutions and file sizes of the pictures must not be too large in terms of size. This is to allow maximum compatibility and cater our visitor’s needs.

So, planning is something we should always do, before attempting something.

theme or design is first important. The image size makes lot of difference when we are thinking about building light weight website which will be easy to load.

Also theme should be suitable according to main topic of the website.

Russell is gonna kick my booty for dragging up old threads but this post will serve a purpose.

I have made several of my own themes and modified several others. After making my two crown jewels I got some nice compliments and reviews on them. Both are plays on gradients. One is blue and the other is red. One complaint I did get was the stark white text on the black backgrounds was hard on the eyes. I ran some colors for the text by the crew and it was settled on using a gray in the message windows in Big Red. Not all of BG's text is gray. Text for Traumatic Tinking is still screaming white. And although they look like they would be heavy and slow loading, they actually load very quickly.
The point I'm trying to make is what trips your trigger may not trip the trigger of members or passersby. Get input from others as you put together a theme. Not only will you have something that is appealing to the masses, your members and staff will have a closer nit feeling in the comunity as they had a part in putting it together. This is the reason I have put out a call to people that want to help put our new format together. I need to have a feel for what they want and want to see.

Big Red
http://animeappeal.com/forums/index.php?styleid=65

Traumatic Tinkering
http://animeappeal.com/forums/index.php?styleid=40