Choosing the right colors for your webpage

Choosing the right colour is extremely important. I have come across many new webmasters coming out with a website which they think has got an 'attitude' by sporting a black background. Let me tell you that, if you look at most successful websites, I mean who monetize from Adsense and the like, the website can be intended to serve your purpose, only if they look like one of the two - either a word document or like a magazine that you hold.

These are still early days in the internet industry(yes, still!) and hence the visitors are comfortable only if the website can look a bit like the analog papers that they are used to. But then, most of us would not prefer to have a word document kind of a website. After all, it aint cool, right. So, we see most of them going to the second kind.

How can you basically achieve this is by starting out with the fundamental colors; light background and a dark foreground. Try out different combinations, and do not simply go by what your preferences, do a little bit of survey about your colors from your peers who you can find in webmaster forums.

Have an utmost of three to four colours on your website. More than this makes a mockery of your content. And finally, if things are not turning out to what is intended, do keep trying out various combinations.