Colors and patterns
I am not an artist nor a designer. Colors and patterns I pick somehow refuse to look good together unless I use different shades of gray. However dull gray is, it is extremely easy to apply to any design. Sure it looks clean but when people send me emails telling me my design looks good I can’t help but thinking – “what design?”.
So what should a man desperate to create a design good enough for his carefully crafted website do?
As for me, I set forth on a quest through the wonderland of good looking designs scattered thoughout the vast and dangerous world wide web. Somehow it feels good to see that there really isn’t much originality out there. All the graphics, design and javascript bloggers have links to sites in the same genre and name their linked cyberfriends sites as an inspiration.
An innovative design quickly spreads and creates a new trend. These trends in web design being very obvious. A year, or probably two years, back the white low tech design was very hot. I guess in some way it still is because of Movable Type and the likes. Before that the portal interface with numerous distinct boxes were hot stuff. Heck, I remember when a black background was cool design and a white background meant the page was produced in Frontpage. Right now patterns have a revival.
I guess I won’t ever see fresh ideas before they already have created the trend and spread all over the loosely tied networks of bloggers and all the sites I frequent. And as a code oriented non designer web developer I guess I am doomed to be a follower.
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