Website colour theory

fozzybear · 14 Nov 2006 at 16:32

For a horse-racing website/blog, i'm really struggling to find shades of green and brown that actually look good together.

Can you recommend any colour schemes or can you point me to any decent websites that may help me out on this subject?

Cheers.

iCraig · 14 Nov 2006 at 16:36

http://www.colorwhore.com/

fozzybear · 14 Nov 2006 at 16:39

iCraig said:
http://www.colorwhore.com/

Thank you kind sir.

Do you think i'm on the right lines in choosing green and brown for a horse racing website?

Mr_L · 14 Nov 2006 at 16:40

I find Color Whore quite good for picking nice colours. There's also Color Combos and Color Schemer, which you might find useful.

fozzybear · 14 Nov 2006 at 17:19

Cheers guys. Those sites will be very useful for me.

I also had the idea (not sure if i'm being slightly too ambitious) of having a grassy background with an imprint of a hoof in it. Would this be easy to do as my design skills aren't too great.

Something like this is what i want. Where's the best place to find decent quality backgrounds/textures and whats the best way to make sure that it doesn't look badly tiled? I'm guessing i would need to edit parts of the original grassy image in PS. :confused:

Finally, is it best to have a fixed background or a scrolling one like the website here?

joeyjojo · 14 Nov 2006 at 18:05

Good links, thanks.

It would be easy to use that sort of background, but choosing the right image is tricky. If it's repeating, it has to repeat nicely and be big enough so it isn't clear what the repeating unit is. If it's stationary (you move down the page and it doesn't) you still have to worry about width, getting it to fit the screens of your target audience.

Sic · 14 Nov 2006 at 18:33

i have the colour schemer application and i can't recommend it enough. excellent bit of s/w