One more bitch and I'm done for the night

[andysocial]

Honestly, this will be my last complaint about peculiar online choices tonight.

Red and Yellow do not make a good, eye-soothing, web design. If your intent is to look like the Oscar Meyer hotdog wrapper, congratulations. If your main desire was to entice people to actually view your site, sorry but you missed the mark.

Let's go back to elementary school here and think of complementary colors, shall we? Yellow and Red aren't. Red and Green are decent, although kinda Christmasy. Yellow and Purple are an acceptable combination as well.

Or, you could just look around and copy a webpage you like. If you like Oscar Meyer, then fine -- stick with your red-on-yellow monstrosity. Just don't be surprised at only getting visitors who are hankering for some processed meat by-product. :-)

Comments

[moonlover.livejournal.com]

Personally, I love when they write in a color that's vertually invisable to the human eye, like yellow writing on a white background. I would think that people would preview something like that first or use their heads.

[andysocial]

Hehe...

I just made a great example of what NOT to do for HTML design: Fugly index is a quick modification of my normal index page from my main site. I hardcoded some fonts as really tiny, randomly placed tables left and right-aligned, made the tables ridiculously narrow, and even made the colors as hard-to-read as possible. About the only thing I didn't do was insert an exceptional busy and high-contrast background of riotous coloring. Maybe next iteration. Is "Web Pages That Suck" still around, I wonder?

Could be worse

[leora.livejournal.com]

Just so long as you don't put blinking text on an animated background. I wish the blink tag didn't exist. I hate blinking text.

<a href="http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com">Here ya go</a>

[andysocial]

Web Pages That Suck undoubtedly has an example of that. Of course, since Netscape's market share is so tiny now, it's become less of a known issue. Now, the MARQUEE text has been overdone a tad...