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How Color Plays an Important Role in Web Designing

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 02:30 PM PST

Lets start with the Color Wheel which is nothing but the spectrum twisted around to make a complete color wheel that shows relationships between primary colors, secondary colors and complementary colors. The color wheel is particularly useful for showing how the colors relate to each other and how you can create new colors by mixing two or more colors. The wheel is divided into twelve distinct colors. In the below image you can see by combining primary, secondary and tertiary color we get the complete color wheel.

Every Designer wants to create an eye catching website but how it can be achieved. The answer is simple if he implements pleasant color schemes in his design, because color plays a critical role in graphic designing. Colorsontheweb is Web portal one must know while playing with colors. Below are few things explained, taken from the Colorsontheweb.

Color theory

Color Physics
The Color Wheel
Color Terms
Combining Colors
Color Contrast

Color tools

Color Wizard
Color Wheel
Color Contrast Analyzer

Color Wheel: The color wheel consist of a continual gradient of the colors in the spectrum, below image illustrates how combining primary, secondary and tertiary results in complete color wheel.

Color terms: Most commonly used terms in colors: Hue, Saturation, Tint and Shade, below image shows the difference between these terms.

Color Combination: In Various ways you can set the color combo. Choose a color of your choice and you can set different combo. What I used to do while creating a web template, I randomly select any color which I like. Indeed it is a good source one can choose color according to the below pattern to keep harmony in one’s web template.

Color Contrast: Below image illustrates different color contrast scheme.

Color Wizard : Choose a color randomly or manually, after that you can set various combination like Monochromatic, Analogous, Triadic, Tetradic etc. As shown in the image when you select any pattern it appears in the corner of the right-bottom.

Color Wheel : Select color of your choice and check varying it.

Color Contrast Analyzer : You can test if your text color is compatible with the background.

This is very useful for Graphic or Web Designer. Do you find this helpful let me know through your comments.

To read more details visit link : Colorsontheweb

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[Updated] Blogger to WordPress 1-to-1 Redirection Plugin

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 03:15 AM PST

Around 2 year back, I developed my first WordPress plugin, named Blogger to WordPress Redirection Plugin (see old post). It was developed to take care of 1-to-1 redirection between old Blogger.com posts and new WordPress blog. Over the time, we launched a professional service for Blogger to WordPress Migration and many users thought that they will never see any update for our free and open-source plugin again. Proving them wrong, we gladly announce release of a new version of our old-plugin with exciting new features.

New Features

Zero changes requires on WordPress-side. Plugin handles everything automatically on WordPress.
New configuration wizard help you setup redirection without much efforts.
Supports importing from multiple Blogger.com blogs.
Add supports for “rel=canonical” & “meta-refresh” tags on Blogger.com which will speed-up redirection. This will help search engine update their index faster.

Credits:

The plugin comes bundled with experience of Nitun, our BloggerToWP service head, who has handled more than 100 migrations this year. If you really like user-interface of this plugin, the credit goes to Rakshit, new developer at rtCamper with good aesthetic taste! Link: Blogger to WordPress Redirection Plugin

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