Site Design Customization
Friday, May 25, 2007
Nowadays, in this highly affluent world, people get very uneasy when sites or blogs are not pleasant on the eyes. Every individual would definitely want their website or blogs to look good, if not at least to the best they can. Here are a few things we could look out for when wanting to create or improve on our template look and feel.
Color Schemes
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 have a professional feel to it.
Themes
Themes must always suit the topic, purpose, company or rather, the organization. If the website was made to cater for a food related niche, it would be wise to stick to that particular category, rather than to revert to a different theme, such as technology.
Fonts
Fonts should be used in regards 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. Do take a little time to study our traffic statistics for used platforms, browsers and resolutions if you are upgrading your site or blog.
Posted byDaryl W.T. Lau at 6:52 PM
Labels: optimize blog
I love designing as a hobby and appreciates it when themes portray the topic it represents well. I will be toying around with blogspot template designs in my spare time for public usage.
where can i download the blogspot template like you are using? Like in this blog?
-cybersix-
Hi Cybersix... I customized this for my own usage. You can get a similar one here:
http://how2make.blogspot.com/2007/04/free-template-technologies-ramblings.html
Cheers!
Daryl
thanks for the link...And nice customization you made to your blog.