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We take design seriously
The points we consider in the early phases of planning
are:
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Who is your audience?
• Is your target market clearly identified?
• How do you want to reach them?
• How do you want them to perceive your presence on the web?
• How will your site become a meaningful extension
of your current method of conducting business?
• What actions do you want your visitors to take and will
the
user interface make it easy for them to do so?
• What are the technical limitations of your audience ?
(modem speed, operating system, browser etc.)
Form
and function should be tailored to these findings.
Yet the design should still be versatile enough to allow widespread
usability.
Organized
planning is our way of creating
an attractive, functional and effective web presence.
For
most of us, a rainbow of colors envelopes our lives.
Over 80% of visual information is related to color. What colors
and combinations of colors stimulate people to be interested
in different things?
What colors make us feel pleasure or disapproval, hot or cold,
to be attracted or repelled, our appetite stimulated or suppressed?
Many reactions to color are instinctual, universal and cross
cultural boundaries.
"Colors
also convey messages that go beyond ethnic, racial, or gender
boundaries. According to a 1997 survey by Cooper Marketing
Group, Oak Park, IL,
POWER is represented by the color scarlet
red for 25% of respondents, black
for 17% and bright violet blue
for 13%. More than 55% of those surveyed chose one of these
three colors out of 100 colors.
Fragility was most represented by pale
pink (27%), white (9%), and pale
lavender (9%)."Other associations with colors are
specific to a culture or regions. Mixing appropriate amounts
of different colors however can neutralise inherent negative
cultural connotations.
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Web
design, which achieves successful marketing results,
is sensitive to the cultural, instinctual and iconic
meanings of color
in relation to the product being promoted and considers
the
cultural backgrounds and gender of the targeted clientele
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Avoiding
the extremes of sheer garishness and boredom,
effective design displays symphonic color arrangements
of shades, tints, tones and complementarities to tantalise
and maintain interest.
Adding
textures too can alter colors - a roughly textured
surface makes a color seem darker, while a smooth
surface lightens the same color.
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