Text colors and backgrounds

Backgrounds, text colors and frames are among those matters you have to pay attention to when you are creating a web masterpiece of yours. As graphics and texts are mainstays of any website, knowing some relevant theory about them will surely be worthwhile and productive.

Let’s deal with text colors and background simultaneously as they are in most cases inseparable things when you create sites and your knowledge of color contrast will be very useful in connection to this.
In choosing the proper background for your text, I suggest that you avoid as much as possible patterned backgrounds. Patterned backgrounds can be source of relative difficulty in reading the text which is the more important element between the two. There is wisdom in the advice that light is for dark and dark is for light, generally speaking. Also, you should avoid using very hot colors when you want to give your site an air of professionalism.
At this point perhaps, it can be said that in choosing the background your choice of what background to use should merely follow the appearance of text and the objective of your site. Making your texts as readable as possible will be very advantageous on your part.

Frames

Currently, web designers are giving frames a frowning face unlike in the previous time when the use of it is very popular. This rather unfavorable feeling can be explained by the very weaknesses of sites that use frames. First, it is observed that pages dependent on frames are difficult to bookmark. Next, pages that utilize frames are generally difficult to navigate. Then, pages using frames are a bit difficult to print. Finally, it has been observed too that contents in frames are not as readily as “index-able” as those without frames. This greatly sacrifices your pages’ search engine optimization. And as we all know, your pages must be SEO- in sync so that they will have better fighting stance as compared to other sites in the realm of daily SEO warfare.
As a wrap-up, I would like to stress, again, the need to create smooth co-existence between text color and background so as not compromise readability and usability. Then, avoiding frames in your design will likewise pay dividends as there are other means you can make use of in presenting your content. Now, having done all these things you can now consider other pressing concerns when you build your project sites.

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