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fonts.com and typography.com for a start. Personally, I often like to use fonts that I've seen in advertisements and found appealing: you can identify any fonts you can scan using a service like WhatTheFont (http://www.myfonts.com/whatthefont) – it will take a look at the letters and tell you which font you've found. Of course, commercial fonts can be expensive. Don't pay ridiculous amounts, but don't be afraid to pay a little: the chances are that you'll be getting a much better font than you would be otherwise. Avoid Clichés. Finally, whatever you do, please avoid the painful cliché logos that are so common on the web. To help you out, here's a quick list of logo types to stay away from: Decade-linked logos. Please don't make your logo look like something from the '60s, '70s or '80s, unless one of those decades is directly relevant to your site. If you just do it for no reason, it's a cliché. Spirals. Putting spirals in logos has been done to death – no matter what variations you might be able to think of on it, they've been done. Spirals are nice, appealing shapes, but simply too common in logo design to consider. Animals. Putting an animal (or a silhouette on an animal) into your logo might look nice, but the chances are that there are already plenty of people out there using your animal. Especially if you've had the 'original' idea of combining a rabbit and a hat to imply that your product is 'magic'. Letters making faces. Painful in every case, and yet getting more common all the time. Please resist the urge to draw a little curve under two Os to make a smiley face. Please. Letters making punctuation. Like the faces, but worse. How many more Is turning into exclamation marks do we have to endure? Just don't do it. Swooshes. The king of the clichés, the swoosh is at the point where using it in your logo will get you mocked. A swoosh is a curved line running across your logo – some say it's now the most common logo device in the world. The Web Design Guide for Newbies |124
I'm sure you can think of something better. Picking a color Scheme. Before you can consider the finer points of your design, you need to make the big decisions. Few of these decisions are more important than what color scheme your website is going to use. If you choose the wrong one, your site will be, in the worst cases, completely unreadable. Pay Attention to Contrast. First of all, before you do anything else, you need to check that the colors you've chosen provide enough contrast for your text to be readable. Don't put orange text on a yellow background, or red on blue, or anything like that. You should especially avoid using a lighter version of a color on top of a darker version of that same color, or vice versa. You've got to make sure that your text is readable. Never Use Black Backgrounds. You can generally use whatever colors you like as part of your color scheme, but stay away from black backgrounds. It makes your website look 'underground' and threatening, not to mention old-fashioned. The only people who will like it will be dyed-in-the-wool computer nerds and people who get headaches from large areas of white. Not Too Many colors. You should choose three or four colors for your site, and use only those colors (or shades of those colors). You can't go using the whole rainbow without the design looking garish, and garish is never good. Decide ahead of time which three or four colors you're going to use, and stick to it – if you want to add one, you have to drop one of the ones you've already got. Complementary colors. These are colors that are opposite each other on a color wheel, and so look good together, at least according to color theory. The three most common The Web Design Guide for Newbies |125
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Chapter 1: Why You Need a Website?
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Chapter 2: How the Web Works. Many
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