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20 Extremely Skillful Uses of Color in Web Design [PICS]

reencoded.com — Many sites “play it safe” when choosing colors. Brilliant colors have to be carefully controlled to avoid looking amateur. I’ve selected these 20 sites for excellent use of color along with their overall web design. Quality of CSS, features, ease of use all come into play as well. Hope you enjoy!

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  • n064, on 08/15/2008, -17/+154..……………………….„~"¯¯¯”~„
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  • Lust4Me, on 08/15/2008, -3/+98I find their use of the black text "Service Temporarily Unavailable" on white background groundbreaking.
  • iamyak, on 08/15/2008, -3/+80Oh! I've got this problem with my e-mail ...
  • SocialPoison, on 08/15/2008, -2/+36Actually? Very.

    A front page on Digg is sometimes akin to a DDoS attack :P
  • dafragsta, on 08/15/2008, -4/+25IMMA CHARGIN' MAH MIRRORZ!
  • wildfire, on 08/14/2008, -4/+22Could have been a little more in-depth with explanations than just a bunch of thumbnails...
  • inactive, on 08/15/2008, -6/+24^
    gotta love ascii virgins...
  • rdubbs, on 08/15/2008, -2/+20buried for not even linking to the sites referenced ... true they have the url as text, but linking a second page that only links to a screenshot?

    ... unless it's added via js, can't tell, can only get text-only at best now.
  • jakatak, on 08/15/2008, -8/+23HOW HARD IS IT TO HOST WITH A DECENT COMPANY THAT HAS SERVERS THAT DON'T CRASH WHEN LINKED TO A DIGG POST!!!!!
    mirror please.
  • SLockhart, on 08/15/2008, -4/+19Black text on a white background? I could have figured that one out myself.
  • jakatak, on 08/15/2008, -1/+15okay. good point.
    still need mirror. :-)
  • YourMaster, on 08/15/2008, -1/+10Challenged in the principle of induction? Here you go:

    1 x backslash:
    2 x backslash: \
    3 x backslash: \
    4 x backslash: \\
    5 x backslash: \\
    6 x backslash: \\\
    7 x backslash: \\\
    8 x backslash: \\\\
  • inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+9why do the stupid people always get here first?
  • phantomcrawl, on 08/15/2008, -0/+820 Extremely Skillful Uses of Color in Web Design [PICS]
    1 Easy way to bring a server down!
  • n064, on 08/15/2008, -4/+10lol damn you
  • n064, on 08/15/2008, -0/+6that mirror sucks
  • noPCtoday, on 08/15/2008, -0/+5The internet needs a RAID 1
  • amnesiac096, on 08/15/2008, -0/+5they have nothing better to do?
  • opzero, on 08/15/2008, -0/+5I'm pretty sure colour has nothing to do with the fact that it's a 503 page and not a 404 ;)
  • MacTyler, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4...without wp-cache installed
  • KielKilla, on 08/15/2008, -3/+7ORANGE IS THE COLOUR OF GOD MAN AND VIOLET REPRESENTS GODS PRESENCE MAN. MAN. MAN.
  • username145, on 08/15/2008, -2/+6Did you try turning it off and back on?
  • biofreak12, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3Nice stuff, i'll use it as inspiration.
    The link is dead tho.
  • Discobiscuits, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3reencoded.com isn't included in the list. By a long shot. Maybe he should take the advice of his own articles.
  • MacTyler, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4http://thewebsiteisdown.com/
  • dafragsta, on 08/15/2008, -3/+61 Extremely Unskillful Demonstration of Website Load Management
  • Radan, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3Just a advice to you akira117. When posting tinyurls, use the preview one. Like this.

    http://preview.tinyurl.com/5cyzms

    Many people are a bit sceptic of clicking on links which they have no idea of where they lead.

    And as some might be wondering, yes it is indeed Google Cache, though it seems like the CSS is all screwed up (the images load for a couple of seconds, but when the CSS kicks in they just disappear).
  • thetron, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2MIRROR! Can't view page
  • MtheoryX, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2"Digg is a juggernaut"

    ...bitch?
  • inactive, on 08/28/2008, -2/+4SHOOP DA WOOP!
  • MtheoryX, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2"...but if you're bored then you're boring..."

    Lyrics from Harvey Danger "Flagpole Sitta"

    Just sayin'.
  • colinodell, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2Or his advertisements: http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/3760/failru1.jp ...
  • nevona, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2That doesn't work either...
  • pbdyhcky189, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2I appreciate the seizure.
  • Skull0Inc, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2BUSTED!!! ....already....
  • trueshadow21, on 08/15/2008, -2/+4Well not everyone gets to see it the first time.
    Got to spread the rick, gotta never give him up.

    :(
    ***** me...
  • melodeath666, on 08/15/2008, -3/+5Not only is this site down, all the sites it linked too are down. Digg is a juggernaut.
  • life036, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2And down they go... All of em...
  • renesisx, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1Yeah, it's pretty wrong that they use the screen grabs of other people's work, and then don't link back.

    Buried for being lamers.
  • inactive, on 08/15/2008, -4/+5"and so on"
    that wasn't a series. You made a blank, and then a slash. Hardly a time to say "and so on"
  • inactive, on 08/15/2008, -2/+3That's why I recently leased two isles of Gnax's datacentre. So that once I got an article on digg I would have minimal problems. When buying, I told the salesman that I needed enough bandwidth for all of my digg friends as well as the usual aliens (which account for most of my traffic you know? yea you really should try advertising out there, it's great), which was a little over a gazillion people. I haven't had my chance yet but one day.... one day...
  • ozonew4m, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Some extremely useful sites you have listed there... Ive been researching color in website design over at my blog at http://www.color-chart.org and its really interesting to hear some peoples perception of what makes a good color combination
  • Maxo1128, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1Well from the looks of it, it kind of defeats the purpose.
  • Genecalypse, on 08/15/2008, -1/+2down she goes!
  • inactive, on 08/28/2008, -2/+3you have to escape the backslashes when posting ascii art on digg.

    if you type one backslash it comes out as this
    if you type two, it comes out as this \
    and so on.
  • Jorge777, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1Ah, they do good work over at Adaptd I guess. I recognize them from their dolphin contribution to SmashingMagazine's August wallpaper calendar collection.
  • MavRevMatt, on 08/15/2008, -4/+5The last couple posts I've seen by you was this *****. It was funny the first time, now it's not.

    Welcome to my block list.
  • Whitey07, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1Dugg for CSS.
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