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One of the first things we should think of when planning a new web site or application is the colour scheme. We usually create a layout (and I do it with pencil and paper), we can think about the menu and the position of important information, we try to use the work space in a smart way and generally we focus on the overall user interface. next step should be the evaluation of the colours we will use. We can start it all by deciding the basic colour and after that by creating the colour scheme. It is an old story and it started when our computer monitors were smaller and our graphic cards were less powerful. At that time we could rely only on 256 colours (remember?); now it is a completely different story.
Choosing the right colour scheme is one of the things that annoys me more. It makes me suddenly lazy, but I know it is very important. If you have a graphic designer or someone who knows exactly what the colour scheme should be, then you're lucky and you can rely (or be forced somehow) on that helping hand. But if you need to think about all alone, then some kind of tool might become handy.
Web development, web design and programming.