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Background Issues with Websites

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In the thousands of website designs that I look at in the course of a year, I run across this problem with over 50% of them; backgrounds that are so intense that you can’t read the text. Some of the worst offenders are sites with water backgrounds. Other offenders have sites with dark picture backgrounds and then use white type That is hard on the eyes! Don't do it!

If you are going to have a photo or image background in your website design, make sure you lighten it up as much as possible. That way the text should still be readable.

The best way to make your text readable is by having dark text on a light background. Not everyone wants to have black text on a white background as it is here, but it is the most readable. If you want a little more color on your page you can use pastel colors like beige, light yellow and other neutral soft colors. As long as the text is readable! Remember people are looking for information, not pretty pictures (unless you are an artist).

Go to some of the websites for companies like: IBM, AT&T, Ford and Microsoft. When I wrote this article, all had white backgrounds. Some used dark gray, dark blue or a reddish type, but all were very readable. That should be the first priority when you are selecting backgrounds and text colors.

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