Coloring and schemes

[Tariq]

I just realized that I actually had something to add back to you guys as well.

 

Making your shop Look good as well as Function isn't always as easy as we think when we start. Having tools to help us accomplish that is always welcome, at least in my experience, and having a site LOOK good as well as selling good products is what will keep a customer returning.

 

There are only two sites here, but they were HUGE helps to me.

 

A great tool I used to help get my colors matched for getting a lot more of a flow on the sites I did is this.

http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/

It gives you a color layout with co-ordinating colors that makes it very easy to make a great scheme, and shows you ways that you can have your text as well as the headers and such flow from one to the other with great ease on the eye. Play with it. It lets you choose a group of colors from the chart and see how they display together. It also shows you the way the color families DO display together in the chart itself.

 

Another awesome tool to help you if you dont have a way to find out what the heck the colors for the RBG is in the CSS sheet is this, or you are using a straight text editor, and not a WYSIWYG editor for the CSS stuff.

http://www.warpspeedhelp.com/converter.html

Its a converter to show you what actual color that set of numbers and letters translates TO.

 

The first tool gives you the colors in all different formats as well, so that makes it easy too. And the second tool takes all different kinds of input on different ways of formatting the code for the colors.

 

I hope this helps some!