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30 Poor Color Combinations
By Karthik Viswanathan on Saturday, February 21st, 2009 | Tags: design, ideas | No Comments »
Web designers may choose poor color combinations while producing a site. In order to prevent such calamities (and to have some fun), we present 30 such mixtures that should not be used:
- #E96AAE on #27AC1F
- #934638 on #3426FE
- #18A4C7 on #D97B9C
How to get Readers’ Attentions
By Patrick Lin on Thursday, February 19th, 2009 | Tags: ideas, tutorial | No Comments »
A while back someone posted about how to create a virus for Linux very easily. The post basically spread like wildfire through the Linux community, and received huge amounts of attention.
So how can one grab people’s attention?
- Write controversial posts
The Linux virus post was very controversial. There are many who believe that there are no viruses for Linux, and as such, heads turned. If you write something controversial, it will spread. People, especially those that have nothing better to do, like to be perverse. You give them bait and they will pounce on it. Write something people will denounce and they will spread your words to the world (bit of irony, eh?).
The Importance of Colors and Contrast
By Patrick Lin on Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 | Tags: design, ideas | No Comments »
Recently I worked on a design for a non-profit organization. They gave me a site they wanted to imitate, so I got to work. They loved my work, except for one problem – they couldn’t read the links on the right menu.
I’d never actually met these people before I got to work, and it turned out they were a bit advanced in their years, and their eyes weren’t what they used to be. Even though I’m nearsighted, I can see pretty well in low contrasts, so I didn’t take this into consideration.
Further complicating this problem is that colors my laptop look different from colors on most other monitors.
I had used a background of #8CCCFA, a light blue color, with #FFFFFF, full white text. This is what it looks like:
This is #FFFFFF on #8CCCFA.
Can you see the text? Yes? Go ahead and turn down the contrast on your monitor. Once you get down to maybe 50% of what you had before, can you still see it? Probably not.
15 Amazing NASA Images
By Karthik Viswanathan on Saturday, January 10th, 2009 | Tags: ideas, inspiration | 1 Comment »
Nature. Space. Galaxies. What better to represent our world with than amazing photographs of the universe? Nothing can compare to this true beauty.
NASA, or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has placed daily images depicting the vast universe from many standpoints. These images may be used for a variety of purposes, as stated in the NASA image guidelines.
Here are 15 images that “wow”ed us:
40 Inspirational Quotes
By Karthik Viswanathan on Thursday, January 8th, 2009 | Tags: ideas, inspiration | No Comments »
Quotes can spark feelings of happiness, fear, jealousy, love, and more. In this article, we will present 50 inspirational quotes that may be that “spark” to create/improve your own website.
There is no wrong interpretation of a quote. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
- Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst. - William Penn
- When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. – Edward Teller
- No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. – William Blake
- To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. – Anatole France
- The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he’s got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. -Rona Barrett