Cosmic Website Header
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Header or lack there of, the upper area of the page looks awesome. The background peeking through where the header should be. The colors, the design, on black, looks amazing!
Smart Use Of Color
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Again on the Apple site, smart use of color to show off their products. Have you noticed how most of the time their site is all blacks, whites and grays, then in the middle a perfect splash of color, bringing out the part of the site, the featured product that they want everyone to pay attention to?
This is, smart use of color.
Source: Apple.com
Warm Colors, Clean Design, Logo & Navigation
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
You129.com has a few nice elements that I wanted to note, the logo and the navigation tabs. I like the logo for the clean smooth lines, it just flows. Nice, quiet, white to beige gradient, a little drop shadow. Looks really good.
The navigation tabs are also very clean simple. You can see that the tabs that are not in use are darker, therefore making them look like they are behind the active tab.
Blue and beige color combination seems to work very well, makes the site feel warm.
Visit this site at You129.com
Shades Of Gray And A Drop Of Color, Header & Navigation
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
This header and navigation definitely deserve an award of some kind. The shades of gray with a small splash of color. Well balanced design. I like the lighting effects and the 3D look. The navigation icons look great in gray scale and then if you mouse over the buttons they become color. Very clean and simple. Great job!
Visit the site at 3fx-media.de
Nice Color Choices and Precise Navigation
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
The website for Riverstone One was built for one purpose: showcase available office space and get it leased. Its mission is to sell the location. Personally, I think it accomplishes its mission very well.
- It is very professional in appearance. Nice layout, great color choices. It’s not flashy, overpowering or overcrowded.
- Simple, precise navigation. No one is going to wonder, “gee…what’s this tab for?”
- Straightforward content showcasing the building and the surrounding area.
This is a great example of a niche website being built for a single purpose. If you have a client who is looking to have a single focus website built I’d strongly suggest looking at this website as a great model to follow.
Fun Color Resource
Monday, May 5th, 2008Â 
What was your favorite Crayola crayon color when you were a kid? Are you still a Crayola fan? If so, well, here’s the color resource for you! We have referenced COLOURlovers site in the past and are doing so again. This COLOURlovers article contains information about all 120 Crayola colors. Along with containing some interesting facts about Crayola crayons, it also contains the Hex codes and RGB values for each color as well. This is a good chart to remember when needing to come up with some good, quality colors for future design work.
A Website for All Seasons
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008I like websites that have seasonal appeal. I know Silvia Bukovac and her passion for photography, web design and graphic design. Her company website, dgDESIGN is an awesome website to visit. From their mainpage, you have the ability to select your ’season’ (spring, summer, fall, winter) and the rest of the site’s navigation fits the theme you have selected. Pretty cool. Her site also features some great photography as well. Take a moment to check out the website. They have a very talented design team and also offer some great insight and tips on web design and graphic design. Hope you don’t mind the referral Silvia!
Looking for Great Color Combinations?
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Are you looking for some inspiring color combinations for your next site design? Perhaps you’re just looking to revamp the color choices in your blog or personal website as well. In any of these cases, you should consider visiting COLOURlovers to spur you on in your color choices.
Here’s what COLOURlovers has to say about their site and community:
“COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color - whether for ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification -a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews. There are currently 72,005 Lovers sharing 899,857 Colors in 306,801 Palettes. Lovers have scored the lovely Colors & Palettes 1,358,101 times and left 483,750 comments and created 57,159 Patterns.”
This is a great resource to use when you are trying to choose color combinations. I found myself scrolling through pages of color palettes. In addition to having a plethora of solid color combinations, they also have patterns that might pique your interest as well. Check it all out and have fun!
Color Schemes and Navigation Design Ideas
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Great color scheme website, the blog is full of different color schemes that you can pick from. The website it self is an inspiration. It’s clean, airy even. I think it’s the combination of white, green and blue together that gives me the airy or free feeling. Simple logo, nice boxy navigation buttons, the color boxes in the right sidebar. Very nicely done.
Visit ColorSchemer.com
Designer’s Color Scheme Selector Tool
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007The source site for this is: http://wellstyled.com
This is a great tool. I know I will use it next time I am developing a design for a new site. This tool allows you to select your main color and it will suggest and display a variety of color schemes that you can use. You will have a choice of pastel scheme version for your color, a dark pastel, contrast and a few more. This is definitely a tool that every web designer should have it his tool box.
