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Viewing Have You Considered Feng Shui in your Website Design?Have You Considered Feng Shui in your Website Design?
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You have probably heard about using Feng Shui in your home or business. You can apply some of the same principles to your web pages. In this article, Roberto Bell provides a few guidelines - along with a quick tip for tracking visitor activities. By Roberto Bell Less is Good This relates to the fact that more free space (on a web page) would allow positive energy or ch'i to flow around, which then in turn would create a positive environment. Negative ch'i develops when the energy stagnates in one area. To apply this to a page, perhaps you could introduce more curves rather than long straight lines, as well as open spaces with perhaps more use of paragraphs in content and padding around tables. Navigational links to other pages should be clear, allowing positive energy to flow through the whole site. Colors Clean, crisp, bold colors will attract a user's attention and should be used around the web page, as this helps ch'i to flow. Dark colors or white text on a black background is a definite no no. It is what we have been taught at a young age, inbuilt within our subconscious and for good reason! Dark colors attract negative energy, which could result in users staying on the site for only a few moments, hastily rushing through the pages. Calm, soothing colors such as blue or white are recommended for large areas of space, while colors such as red and orange are regarded as being positive. Yin and Yang The balance of Yin and Yang is an important part of Feng Shui studies, and can be defined as two opposites such as male and female, young and old, inside and outside etc. So using an example of a website that is split into two columns, with content text in one column and graphics in another, perhaps the ideal balance would be to swap some graphics into the text section and likewise some content into the graphics section. It is all about balance. Other Tips Implement Google Analytics to check where your visitors are going, where they are clicking and from which pages they are leaving. If applying Feng Shui to your site has helped, I would love to find out. About the Author: Giles Dawe is based in Hong Kong, and creates web solutions for small to mid-sized companies. For more information on Feng Shui, visit Feng Shui Chinese and Feng Shui Articles. Article Source: 1st Rate Articles - http://1stRateArticles.com |
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