Comments on: Key elements in coloring your web app / website!

By: Nitin Jain

Nitin Jain — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:50:18 +0000

Some time back I was looking at this website http://www.the3iportal.com and found UI and colors quite attractive.
On a closer look I though found that there were hardly any colors used. But they have made sufficient use of pictures (which themselves were quite colorful) to give the look n feel. Use of images also uses one’s right brain optimally. Good way of giving one’s UI a facelift!!!

By: Mohit

Mohit — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:46:29 +0000

Hi Marvin

I kind of agree with you on the “Blue” philosophy. I had 2 sites – jobplaze.com and postandrecruit.com – both with blue as the base. While designing my 3rd site – viewjobs.com – I decided to take a break from blue and switched to RED. After a month, the RED changed to BLUE

Again, as Anand said, the post is quite basic and does not go deeper into the subject. You could have evaluated / linked colors like GREEN which is also very good. Some talk on pastel v/s solids would also have helped.

By: Marvin

Marvin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:40:19 +0000

thanks Anand for your inputs. Delving into combinations deeper is gonna be like going into “vaastu-shastra”. Yeah, colors do reflect feelings … and that’s where one has to find a good fit between a scheme of colors & that of one’s business.

By: Marvin

Marvin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:37:00 +0000

yeah, it should be a fit of what you want…:)

By: surabhi

surabhi — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:35:34 +0000

Thanks Marvin for taking time out !!

Well Ask Question section is not the basic purpose but its one of the means. Each section is equally important – be it Live Chat or Career Option or Ask Question!! The flash I agree gets the highlight and that’s in a way good…The flash text and words if you read carefully contains Career Decision Algo which we trying to promote to be part of mainstream education !

By: Anand

Anand — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:52:16 +0000

Good post but quite superficial.

You may want to cover aspects like color combinations based on the message you want to deliver, perception you want to create etc. Also, colors are closely nit with feelings that relate to reliability, enthusiasm, verve, warmness, collaboration etc.

By: Marvin

Marvin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:16:51 +0000

Hey Surabhi …. I went through your website. Its pretty well laid out and nice choice of colors. Except that the basic purpose of your website i.e. “answered, unanswered and so on questions” have been given back seat as compared to the flash-loop at the top header of the website. It drives away attention from the main purpose of your portal. I think you can do away with the flash and bring core at the front with higher font size.

Like that’s totally my opinion…decision is absolutely yours.

Ashish for pluggd.in I will to delve deeper into the subject, usage and engagement. The color combo right now is neat enough….Lay out is something we can play around with. But only as you say, sir?

By: Ashish

Ashish — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:38:35 +0000

Marvin – What color combo do you suggest for pluGgd.in

By: surabhi

surabhi — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:40:51 +0000

Hi ..I remember when I started with http://www.meracareerguide.com , the team had huge discussion over week on colour ..it was more of altercation , finally we stuck with shade of blue !!!!!

Marvin, let know what you think about layout and color scheming of the portal !! Your words would help us improve !!