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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I will comment on your color question, since that was something I originally pointed out... Color is (or should be) a vital part of any site. It is not just decorational, it is also functional--in other words, when considering which colors to use where, you have to think, "What does this color tell the visitor?" Rather than asking, "Where should I add a new color?" you should ask, "Where would a highlight color be most effective?" One thing that Veneficuz pointed out was the lack of differentiation between active and inactive navigational elements in the menu--rather than attempt to differentiate the current page by using a different shade of the same color, why not use a different color entirely? In a spirit of helpfulness, I whipped up a [url=http://www.liminality.org/misc/shamon_cap.gif]quick example using the header graphic[/url]. The original darker blue color was #849BAC, which is HSB 205/23/67. I simply changed the hue to 120, giving me a hex value of #84AC84, and then used this in place of the lighter blue color. It is without a doubt easier to distinguish between active and inactive, and I think it looks nicer aesthetically as well. Just an idea, of course. I'm not saying that you necessarily have to go this route, I'm just trying to offer some possibilities--a way to kill too birds with one stone, in this case. Perhaps one of the reasons why you're having a hard time figuring out where to use color is that you don't have enough of it on your site. The only real areas of color are the header and the footer. Play around with that green (#84AC84), or maybe even try out an orange (there are no oranges with the same saturation and brightness as the green and blue, so you'd have to go a different route there), and see what you can come up with. Another idea is to play around with your link colors. You've got the default colors there right now, and they don't really go too well with the rest of the color scheme. And since I've pretty much drifted entirely into the subject of color, here's some reading for you on the subject: http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/ http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs092/VA10/HTML/start.html ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/FaqWiki/shownode.php?id=270]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/1213]Sig Rotator[/url] \| Keeper of the Juicy Bits [small](Edited by [internallink=2031]Suho1004[/internallink] on 05-24-2004 04:09)[/small] Loading...
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