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Take out all the content on your site and have someone try to guess what it's for. Content defines a site, not the design. A design is a tool there to assist the content.
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Of course, if you took everything out it would be a blank canvas about nothing. You must situate the content within the right context. That what these design programs give you the opportunity to do. And I'm saying you've created a bad/distasteful context, which inevitably lets the content (what it is) down. Do you think Apple would have their current success if their computers were ugly and their site looked like a submission directory? Your (and my) content is all over the web, in bucket loads. Thus, it's your primary goal to create an exciting new twist that stands out from the crowd.
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I disagree wholeheartedly. Aesthetics means beauty. I think my site is killer, so I've done my job with aesthetics from my point of view. We have different senses of style, yes, but don't tell me I have little consideration for beauty.
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I didn't. Aesthetics doesn't have to have anything to do with beauty at all. The two are completely different. Aesthetics simply means to do with the eye - things that can be seen. Beauty is a whole other debate, which usually results in the old adage, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". It's an intangible concept.
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By disregarding the details on my site, I might as well say this about your site: A single box of white with gray around it.
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Great isn't it. Really makes visitors click on the design services.
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What colors are 'relevant' to web design, exactly?
In addition, red means love, passion, life and sexuality while black also means enigma, power and independence. Every color has positive and negative connotations. It's up to the visitor to decide what they see, and I can honestly say I'm not at all worried about someone associating my site to the Nazi party.
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Rather worrying. There are no colours that signify web design. You are right about the variety of connotations each colour has. What I'm criticising is the combination. The combination of red and black, in such a visually strong way, connotes ideas of what I mentioned. Of course, largely, we don't have a choice about how we respond to colour's meanings. It's embedded within our psyches. And so you have to think about what the majority of people would assume or feel in order to create a successful interface which delivers the right response.
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I agree, that's why I'm so interested in your comments. It's the first of it's kind about my site, both on these forums and off.
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I remember when I had my first interrogation by someone about my site. I took it a lot worse than you have. But inevitably it led me to improve my site and my company, and became invaluable. I'm not throwing unthoughtful insults at you here. I hope to see your site take the same developments as mine has through the months, even though, as you make me consider, I still have a lot to do. The main difference between us at the moment is that I can give concise, valid reasons for every aspect of my web site, because of the amount and breadth of my consideration of it. I don't feel you can do the same yet. And so I'm trying to broaden your concept of of what you create.