A colleague of mine and awesome webmaster, Aaron Congleton, just sent me to a great article on designing with color, Contrast is King, on A List Apart. Definitely a nice read with some great resources and information to help you design in color and consider accessibility and viewing aesthetics and balance.
A great concept that is mentioned is the practice of viewing your design in black and white to see where color may fail and how the design appears including contrast in a low fidelity scenario. I used this approach recently creating some test for form validation and the issues that can arise when using color only for indication. Luke W. can tell you all about that.
This is an awesome resource that provides designers many tools and options to create their color palette similar to Kuler, but also accessibility features like the ability to view your palette via various color blind type perspectives.
You may have been directed hear from a cached link in a search engine based on a post URL in my older blog. I apologize if this is not the post you were looking for.
I recently switched my blog engine to WordPress from B2Evo, so old post URL’s aren’t going to work very well. I did get my old post transferred over, so it’s still here.
Feel free to run a search within my blog to find what you were looking for.
I’ve switched my blog system from B2Evo to WordPress.
Now, B2Evo wasn’t bad at all and had some really nice features, but I’ve reviewed some of WordPresses latest features and plugins and felt it was time for a change.
Thank you B2Evo for the great system!
I’m still working on transferring my data over, hopefully that goes well. Obviously old post URL’s/permalinks will not work.
Some other small issues due to the transfer:
legacy Links may not be interactive.
legacy YouTube embeds were using a B2Evo YouTube plugin, so those wll not display correctly.
legacy audio clips were using B2Evo audio plugin.
Categories did not transfer and get re-assigned properly. You may notice that I cleaned this up and reduced the amount of categories I was working with and now have added “tags” to most post. You can search on both.
