Planning, Planning, Planning

Hooray!!! I finished the Website Evaluation Report last night, but I am too nervous to submit. I never really trust the electronic delivery. I think I will do some blogging and posting and then send away.

I have been playing with ColorBlender (please see my previous post for more details) and have created a color combination featuring greens with light purples that looks nice, almost soothing. I wrote down the combination numbers, but think I will play some more. I am not sure purple would be appropriate. I would like to incorporate brown so I end up with dark greens, browns, and whites, somewhat playing on the idea of trees and sidewalks.

Here is a bit of information about my neighborhood that I found on our town's civic association website.

I am also making notes to organize thoughts about possible pages:

1. Homepage: Greater Gladstone Civic Association or Gladstone Manor
2. News (meetings; minutes)
3. Events (recent; upcoming)
4. History (history of the neighborhood; items of interest from the past)
5. Out and About (photoss; meet your neighbors)
6. Links (Lansdowne Borough resources; fun things to do in the neighborhood)
7. About (purpose of site; blurb about site creator)

This will be fun, but a lot of work. I never realized how much planning was involved. I suppose the more planning, the smoother the final site will come together and work.

An Interesting Website with Color Suggestions

I was doing some online research on color and website design and came across a pretty neat site, ColorBlender. The homepage allows you to blend red, green, and blue using sliding scales and then suggests a six-color pallette based on your selection.

The second page presents 225 combinations already created. If you click on any one of the selections the site pops the selection into the sliding scale and allows you to adjust it to your liking.

It is very clever and lots of fun!

Color, Color, Color

While taking a walk this evening I decided (should my site be based on the civic association) to make green a predominant color. We have lots of trees and old fashioned street lights that are dark green. I am thinking a darker green would make a better accent color than background or text. Then again, it might work as a text color on the right background--white?!? tan?!? (Both sound boring.)