Re: Opinions requested regarding new web utility
I'm finishing a set of web-safe color wheels on my website that will be a
freely available resource for web designers. I'm halfway done with them
and expect to be finished in a week or so. However, since I'm using a
brute-force, labor-intensive method for displaying the color combinations
(124 colors done, 88 more to go!), I was hoping to get opinions from you
writers as to whether the wheels are easy to understand--and to catch any
mistakes while I can still fix them fairly easily. Also, I know several of
the writers on this list have web sites, so I'd like to know if they think
these wheels will be useful. The wheels are at
http://toptechwriter.us/rl.htm.
Other's have mentioned the failing need i the 21st century of a "color safe" palette for design.
I found no clue (at first glance) that clicking on a color would open a whole new honkin' full-size browser window. If you're going to do that, tell users in advance. Or let then do it by a right click.
And then there are the huge swatches of color on the resulting page, surrounded by seas of white space. (Then again, this may be because I'm using a 20" LCD monitor.) Stil, I think the information on the results apge could be laid out mroe efficiently.
Better yet, design the wheel page to include a pane, perhaps with JavaScript or DHTML, that shows that information _on_thet_page_ , never taking users away from the wheel itself.
The definition are probably better as pop-ups, rather than in whole new browser windows too.
Oh, and one of your "misfot" colors, #6600CC, goes quite well with yellow or gold.
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Chuck Martin
User Assistance & Experience Engineer
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