Colors

I've had sort of a mental block with blogging because I'm having a hard time coming up with a topic I want to do my final project on. Once I figure out what it is I want to do, I'll be able to use this blog as a place to organize my ideas, collect sites that would be useful for reference, and share tips and woes of web page building.

Although I'm not exactly sure what topic I want my website to be about, I know that I really want to make it well designed. There's so much content on the web to look at that if a site isn't visually appealing, I know that I tend to turn off to it even if the information is good because there's so much else to look at. Because this is my first website, I know that I'm not going to be able to make it really technically complicated . However, I think that by carefully planning out my design and choosing a good color palate, I can still end up with a very professional and classy looking site.

This website, kuler.adobe.com, has some really good color palate themes that look very modern and chic. I particularly like the Orange on Olive and the Firenze. This is a particularly helpful site because once you find the palate you like, you can click on the little icon with the sliders on it and it will give you the hex values, CMYK, RGB, and more for each one.