If I ever needed someone telling me – Just Do It! – it would be now. I have not done any remotely to something on the net since my university days and Fortran programming. The technical part of this blog web-site creation does not interest me at all. If you had asked med 6 months ago if I would be bothered to get stuck in to WordPress, Elementor, domaines, frontend, backend whatever, I would say no way. The lingo is completely new to me and does nothing to spark my imagination. My first instinct would of course be to just do blogging without the – do I really need a website? or buy a solution for cheap. Neither of those options turned out to be very practical nor very cheap.
But one morning during the xmas break last year, I took hold of youtube and searched for web-site building tutorials. After watching them for some hours, my interest was still at a very low point and thought that perhaps vlogging could be something for me. That sure must be so much easier.
To make a long story short. For some reason, I ended up in front of my iMac for a couple of weekends and actually started to build my own web-site. Be warned; all good advice on youtube say not to design your own web-page and learn to build one at the same time. But, true to nature, I could not help myself and sort of did both at the same time. So this is the go of it
What about the colour in this story?
You would think there was no colour in this story, buy there actually is. When I say I know nothing about building a web-site, I literally mean it. That also includes creating a colour-palette. I sort of winged it as I went about it and then came across this photo on Unsplash.com.
This picture spoke to me firstly, because the colour was so clearly in focus. That was the message I was trying to convey – colour being in focus. It is very evident. The twig with autumn orange leaves stands out against a semi-cool blurry background. The twig colours although warm, have very clear opacities and stand out prominently against a cooler hazier background. My own default are cool colours, so the background colours were something that I clearly I could see being carried out as a theme in the rest of the web-page design. The leaves are so clearly warm though. They are in fact very orange, with rust edges and the twig is warm dark brown. Not cool at all. So when applying cool coloured fonts to this image, I quickly ran in to trouble. The orange would not go well with the closer to primary blue and green fonts I wanted for my web-site and all the other colours that I would naturally go for. And playing around with warm toned fonts was a no go for me.
The picture did not end up as a hero image, but I still think its brilliant. The warm and cool colour contrasts work for me – and they convey the feeling that colour is indeed in focus!
Interesting post!