The Digital Creativity Niche

There are so many websites out there that have good content but cannot be utilized well because the colors subconsciously drive the visitors away. There is a previous post I wrote about Color Psychology that you can base your choice of colors on. After you’ve chosen that hue that you want for your website, the next question would be: what are the colors that blend with the one I chose for my website? 

One of the best tools I’ve seen so far online is ColorBlender and it is FREE. You can even download the Photoshop Color Table file or the .act file you can drag and drop on your Photoshop swatches. Neat huh.

If you are in a hurry and you need an instant color blend, that site provides it as well–check this out.

Have fun blending colors and get that awesome-looking website. Don’t forget to give thanks and donate to the people behind that useful tool. And yeah, show me what you’ve come up with– send your link here.

So the website owner(s) signed the contract, nods at the design then leaves you for some time. You uploaded the site and when he/she sees it, he/she goes aghast “Why is it blank? Why does it look that way? Where are the pictures? The articles?”

To the web developers: do not forget to indicate in your contract that it is the responsibility of the owners to give you materials for their websites like original or stock photos and articles, unless otherwise stated.

To website owners: we are developers of the site. More often than not, we do not necessarily have all the materials and articles to fill in the blanks of your website. Have a heart or at least consider this analogy: we are carpenters of your online houses, don’t expect us to pick out the curtains and which vase matches the table runner in your kitchen. Therefore, we wait for your content or you could hire somebody to get content and hand it over to us.

It is also important to note that we cannot just grab good-looking photos and nice articles onlinee. They are copyrighted.

Do not expect your site to be complete if all the content you had in mind are not yet handed over to the developers. Consider also the complexity of the job you are asking for–developers have reasons as to why they have time frames like 3 months or several weeks.

Bottom line is, the rapport between the developers and the client is important. If the contents of the website are all ready, the development of the site would relatively be faster.