When it comes to building up a new website ask any web designer what is one of the most time consuming tasks and you might get a surprising answer!
Its not coding the site, its not checking the database connectivity, heck even security isn’t that frustrating – its the colors! That’s right, many hours of the web developers time is spent searching for the right color combination or tone that will set the stage and mood for the website and its users.
The point is to make it easy for everyone to be able to read, understand, and ultimately appreciate what your website has to offer, A color combination done right can have visitors coming back just because everything they saw looked pleasant. Get too experimental though and your web based eye candy could turn into a stress test for the visitors eyes!
How do you choose colors that work well together?
It would take an entire book to answer that question properly, but there are some basic guidelines to selecting colors. The most important is to use colors with high contrast for the text and the background to aid readability.
Checkmycolours is an online tool for web developers that determines whether the website being developed is pleasant even to those people suffering from color deficits (e.g. Color blindness etc).
To get started with CheckmyColors all the developer has to do is enter his/her websites URL and hit enter! The website will then process all the different colors it can find on your site and will determine if there are any unsightly `gaps’ or clashes between your sites contrast/brightness and colors. It will even tell you where the color clash is (i.e. which element and/or tag) .
Based on calculations and standards suggested by the World wide web consortium (aka W3C) CheckMyColors helps you make your site much more visible to your readers. The search result looks like this
The tool helps you in making a site that has colors that work in harmony with each other. You can now avoid making a site that creates an eyesore for the user and turn them away from visiting your website. It times to build a acceptable interface that suits all types of people!
