You Are What We See
You may not have really thought about the colors of your site before, or you may have spent hours agonizing over them, trying to get them just right. Colors are very important because they evoke different emotions and messages. The combination of colors is also important because we don't want our site to be unreadable by those who are color blind. We have to be wary of these, because colors play a big part in our first impression of a site.
So how do we go about chosing good colors for our site? Here's some suggestions:
- First, pick a primary color for your site (preferably the background). If you already have a good church logo, you probably want to pick your primary color from there, if not all your colors. Even a good photo can be used as the basis of your color scheme.
- Second, check a color match or color scheme website to see what colors work well with those you've already chosen. These will be good colors for other backgrounds on your site, links, or a number of other things.
- Third, pick out a font color. Preferably this will be a color of high contrast to your background(s).
- Once you have your core set of colors, try to limit yourself to using only three or four of them as colors for fonts and backgrounds. Too many colors become distracting.
Of course, there are an infinate number of color combinations that could work for your site. But half the fun is experimenting to see which looks best for your church!