Color Scheme for Your Wedding Photography Website?
Color Scheme for Your Website? - Yes, in a world that is
obsessed with makeover madness, even your website needs to
follow specific
color guidelines when
picking out "what it will wear". The colors you use
when designing your website tell an awful lot about your business,
though you may not know it.
I had this problem myself. I loved my website, it was so cool
looking. I had a red, black and white color scheme, and it
matched all of the material I sent to meeting planners. Sharp
Performance. Smart Features! They were my colors and I fought
changing them.
That is, until I paid $640.00 an hour for Corey Rudl, arguably
the most successful small business marketer on the Internet,
to critique me. That may sound like an absurd amount of money
to pay for a consultation, but Corey is the best, and he definitely
came through. Corey told me point blank, my website says "I
am trying to sell you something".
That is not the look I was going for. I wanted my customers
to be at ease on my site.
Corey taught me that colors that make people feel comfortable
are those that they are used to seeing. So, I toned down my
harsh (but still cool) colors and replaced them with gray and
blue. I did this because some people are still new to the computer
and the Internet. They are tentative with new sites and many
haven’t a clue what they are doing.
However, many of those same people are very comfortable navigating
Microsoft programs, which are gray and blue.
My hopes were that the similar colors of my site would put
newcomers at ease, giving them the same sense of simplicity
and control they have when using Microsoft programs.
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