Too yellow?

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Too yellow?

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Designing another one fellas... is this too yellow?
http://www.sierratech.us/goldnugget/goldnugget/
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yeah.. I could say that. 8O
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

It's a little bright. And now I am thinking that I want some mustard. Or was it bananas? Lemons? ...
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Yea... it's ugly. Back to the drawing board. Thanks feyd 'ol buddy.
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Try these:

- Colour Theory in a Nutshell
- ColorBlender.com

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I think the color is fine its the lack of contrast, generally you want one or two complementing colors and then another color that contrasts it well that is easy to look at (and in my opinion light colored, it takes more work to make a page with a black background that is easy to look at). That colorblender site looks like it could come in handy, I seem to remember some downloadable program that existed for selecting color themes that automatically suggested colors to contrast the ones you choose, never tried it out
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Post by matthijs »

The colors themselves are ok, but it might be better to use the brightest colors only for some details that need attention - like headers or icons - instead of big areas left and right of the main area. As it is, if one tries to read the text the bright areas distract a lot. You could also try to reduce the saturation of the colors.

(p.s. what do you use to crank out so many sites so fast? i'm on quite a lot of coffee but cant keep up with that speed :)
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According to my boss I'm slow.
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Great color sites RobertPaul, thanks!
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Post by Benjamin »

Just desaturate the background colors and you will be fine.
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RobertPaul wrote:Try these:

- Colour Theory in a Nutshell
- ColorBlender.com

Not trying to be a smartass ... they've saved my non-desiger self on occasion ...
I really like that color blender site. Definately worth a visit...
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:I really like that color blender site. Definately worth a visit...
Yep, looks very cool. I would like to see a site that was designed according to the colors which were suggested by this tool though so I can really tell how the final result is (of course it depends on the designer as well but still).
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Oren wrote:
The Ninja Space Goat wrote:I really like that color blender site. Definately worth a visit...
Yep, looks very cool. I would like to see a site that was designed according to the colors which were suggested by this tool though so I can really tell how the final result is (of course it depends on the designer as well but still).
http://vod.digitalflux.net
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Post by Oren »

No offense but I think it's too dark. On the other hand, the code is neat and you used css and xhtml - good work with the code!
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Post by Luke »

I think the color blender site is a good guideline... but don't use ALL the colors it gives you. I did that with the vod.digitalflux.net site and the biggest thing people comment on is the color scheme. Everybody has something to say about it.
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