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Each of our Redberry Website Design clients recieves a branded color palette that features one or two very strong pure colors that we most feel reflect their personality or corporate image. We then build a complete palette around these colors including a wide range of tints, tones and shades for each of the chosen hues. We label each color with the correct Pantone, hex and CMYK value so that we can easily pull colors from the client's color palette into the website design and imagery. This keeps the branded color palette ready for both web and print usage. We will stay within established industry norms when necessary…medical prefers blue shades, legal tends to like conservative colors, midwives love purples and speakers often like vibrant reds, carmines and orange colors. However…even when we are confined by limited colors, we will still find a bright signature color to use as a restrained emphasis for bullet points, arrows or important headers/links…etc. Yes, color does matter in web design. Call us today at 770-783-0230 or visit http://www.RedberryDesigns.com/ to receive your free website evaluation. 

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Have you ever thought about the psychology of colors? Colors are said to be connected to emotions and actions, two interesting ideas when you think about them

Do Colors Matter In Web Design?

ONLINE MARKETING

By Shannon Willoby, Published November 16, 2011

Have you ever thought about the psychology of colors? Colors are said to be connected to emotions and actions, two interesting ideas when you think about them in terms of business.

How do you want a customer to feel when they’re looking at your marketing materials or browsing your website? And have you ever considered how your business’ web design, logo, business cards, and brochure colors could be altering your sales, whether good or bad?

According to a design article on Daddu, colors can influence shopping decisions, making the graphic design of your website and marketing materials a very important decision.

Curious how your website measures up? Check out the list below to see what your web design’s colors could be saying to your customers.

Blue — Safe and secure. Good if you need people to trust you.
Green — Calm and confident. Good for making people spend money.
Red — Energetic and vigorous. Good if you want people to risk.
Yellow — Optimistic and cheerful. Good if you want people have fun.
Pink — Romantic and dreamy. Good for (young) female customers.
Orange — Willing to take action. Good if you want people to act.
Black — Powerful and wealthy. Good if you want people to spend money.

The article goes on to say that certain colors work best for certain businesses. For example, if you’re in the beauty or makeup industry, pink might be a good choice because of its strong association with youth and black due to its association with prosperity. If you’re in the auto industry, you might elect your graphic design to include red because it’s associated with energy and speed and black because of its association with luxury.

I asked one of our graphic designers, Will, his opinion on this topic. He said:

“It is important to choose the right colors for your website because colors don’t just make things look pretty, they create a persona for the website. A lot of websites are blue because blue is a comfort color — police uniforms are blue, it conveys trustworthiness and reliability. Other than color, the general brightness of a website is also important. A darker website could be more entertainment-oriented, while a lighter scheme would give a more corporate feel.”

What do you think? Can colors sway a prospective customer’s decision to contact you or purchase your products or services?

Redberry Designs offers our pro bundled website design, marketing and hosting package it delivers everything that you need to take your online marketing and branding to the next level. Submit a request for quote or call us (770.783.0230) today to get started...

About the Author: Shafik Mansur is CEO and Director of Marketing of Redberry Services Redberry Designs. Redberry is an Agency that Shafik and his business partner, Jannice, created and is a specialized firm, Redberry Support Services, LLC in January of 2009 to provide small and midsize enterprises and entrepreneurs with web design, content marketing and web hosting. He is also an avid photographer and his local photographic work is featured at Noonday Photography. At Noonday Photography - Shafik delivers photo journalistic, artistic and beauty-inspired photos. Photographs natural in their beauty, framed masterfully, are art pieces that capture the magic of your day. Our photographer, with diverse experience in many photographic subjects, always provide a fresh take that takes the documenting of your events and projects to the next level. To learn more and to download FREE business tools and articles, as well as join their mailing list, visit the Redberry Services Redberry Designs website at http://www.redberryservices.com. You may print this article for personal use or republish it online only if it is left unaltered and in its entirety, including bylines, links and author information. Contact the author for all other permissions.

I am still shocked about how few of my FB friends have added the new timeline profile to their page. So here is a link to the app so that you can add it if you haven't already. TIMELINE is now available to everyone! If you want to get it, Go to https://www.facebook.com/about/timeline & click the "Get Timeline" button.

Introducing Timeline
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Timeline is the new Facebook profile. Tell your life story through photos, friendships and personal milestones like graduating or traveling to new places.

Introducing Timeline

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Timeline is the new Facebook profile. Tell your life story through photos, friendships and personal milestones like graduating or traveling to new places.

I had a chance to preview the coming Facebook Timeline feature last night and I am really excited about this! Very soon, users' profile pages will be presented differently. Instead of a list of recent activity with links to earlier posts, Timeline will condense users' recent and past posts, pictures and activities so that their entire history appears on one page. The format looks something like a scrapbook, with pictures and video displayed much larger than they are now. Users can see full galleries or hidden posts by simply hovering over points on a literal line. As a FB app deveIoper, I installed the preview app and this is what I am seeing.

About the Author: Jannice Boyd Almansur (http://www.jannice.info/) is Managing Director of  Redberry Atlanta Website Designs. Redberry is an Agency that offers Branding, Website Development and Hosting Solutions and a full portfolio of business content marketing and brand identity solutions for small businesses. To learn more and to download FREE business tools and articles, as well as join their mailing list, visit the our BerryPatch Blog at http://www.redberrydesigns.com/BlogRetrieve.aspx?BlogID=419 and Redberry Atlanta Website Design website at http://www.redberryatlantawebsitedesign.com. You may print this article for personal use or republish it online only if it is left unaltered and in its entirety, including bylines, links and author information. Contact the author for all other permissions.

 We have clients that have experienced anywhere from a 20% upwards to a 60% increase  in sales based on the strategies we have implemented for them.  If we had to point to the one factor that was consistent among the most successful of them, it would be the fact that they all have real tangible proven business plans. Redberry Website Design partners with small businesses to help them develop and  execute their growth strategies.  It has been our experience that our clients experience exceptional ROI relative to the investment required to retain our services.  One of the biggest challenges that we face when developing a marketing, branding, and  website development strategy for prospective clients, is their lack of business plans and concrete financial planning.    So I pose this question to you... Are you managing your business for success? ...or is it a series of nebulous conversations, strategies and tactics.  Here are some questions that you need to answer before attempting to either acquire outside investors or even before making your own capital investments in resource, services and capital.   

Does your small business, organization or non-profit?

1. Prepare an annual budget?          
2. Have financial statements audited or reviewed (not just compiled) by a CPA annually?         
3. Have a mission and vision statement made known to your employees and customers?         
4. Engage in planning beyond the current year?        
5. Have an outside board of directors to help guide your company?  
6. Have key performance indicators that are reviewed regularly?       
7. Have a solid growth strategy?     
8. Have necessary resources (people, money, etc.) to grow?
9. Have the desire, drive, and enthusiasm to grow and execute growth strategies?     

We would love to hear your comments, thoughts and answers to these questions.  Also if anyone has any additional questions that we have not thought of here please feel free to pose them here.

About the Author: Jannice Boyd Almansur (http://www.jannice.info/) is Managing Director of  Redberry Atlanta Website Designs. Redberry is an Agency that offers Branding, Website Development and Hosting Solutions and a full portfolio of business content marketing and brand identity solutions for small businesses. To learn more and to download FREE business tools and articles, as well as join their mailing list, visit the our BerryPatch Blog at http://www.redberrydesigns.com/BlogRetrieve.aspx?BlogID=419 and Redberry Atlanta Website Design website at http://www.redberryatlantawebsitedesign.com. You may print this article for personal use or republish it online only if it is left unaltered and in its entirety, including bylines, links and author information. Contact the author for all other permissions.