{"id":246,"date":"2006-06-28T17:41:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T17:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2014-08-04T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T15:05:52","slug":"some-help-with-webdesign-and-colours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2006\/06\/28\/some-help-with-webdesign-and-colours\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Help with Webdesign and Colours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something I&#8217;ve always had a lot of trouble with is developing good colour schemes for web pages. (The fact that I&#8217;m rather colour blind does not help matters!) I generally end up falling back to a mono-chrome scheme where the site just uses many different shades of the same single colour. This works but often leads to sites that look a little boring. I need to skin a new web portal at work that I want to make look good and professional to speed up it&#8217;s adoption so I decided I just had to get to grips with this colour thing. There is no magic quick fix but here are two links I found in-valuable and that I&#8217;m sure will also be a great help for others trying to get to grips with this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Colour Theory Explained\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webwhirlers.com\/colors\/combining.asp\">A page explaining the theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Interactive Colour Wheel\" href=\"http:\/\/wellstyled.com\/tools\/colorscheme2\/index-en.html\">A nice interactive web-based colour wheel to help you put it into practice<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I&#8217;ve always had a lot of trouble with is developing good colour schemes for web pages. (The fact that I&#8217;m rather colour blind does not help matters!) I generally end up falling back to a mono-chrome scheme where the site just uses many different shades of the same single colour. This works but often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[430,429],"series":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech","category-programming","tag-css","tag-web-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-3Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7419,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/7419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}