My New Arcade Layout

Uploaded it about an hour ago, still not happy with the colour but happier with the page as a whole. Will start adding more games over the next few weeks. Then I need to start on my new project. More to follow.

Making your text look like gold

Someone has asked me to build them a website, now I tried very hard to convince them that this was a terrible idea as a) I am useless at designing websites and b) see number 1. However they insisted, obviously this because they are either mad or more likely that I'm not charging (yet!).

I decided that it would be nice to have the heading in gold writing on a black background but I wanted it to look like gold rather than just be coloured gold. A little bit special, in the end I found a few sites, the first 2 sites are colour chart sites which helped with getting the colours I was looking for although in the end I didn't require them:

http://halflife.ukrpack.net/csfiles/help/colors.shtml
http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm

The next 2 sites were more helpful as in they showed how to make your text look like gold. The latter of the 2 sites being the best of the 2. However it is a long winded process but does look good at the end.

http://www.wowwebdesigns.com/power_guides/gold_text/
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshoptutorialstextfx/Creating_Text_Effects_with_Photoshop.htm

http://www.designvitality.com/blog/2007/09/photoshop-text-effect-tutorial/

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photoshop-text/text-effects/gold/

I did follow the instructions on the last site and although it did look good it took a while and it didn't look exactly the same as the sites example but I think that it because I didn't shape the text correctly at the beginning as the sites example seemed thicker. However it did look good. I will be giving this a go with a different font later but that I feel will be a little more difficult.

Colour Scheme's

Another interesting site mentioned by Seth (http://www.grooming-health.com/) regarding Psychological Properties of Colours. Take a look:

http://www.colour-affects.co.uk/psyprop.html

Not how this will change the colours for my sites. Yesterday I changed to pale blue and now I am thinking of a darker blue in places and the burnt orange colours (thank you John (jwjonline)) from my original logo (thank you Sharron (design by atfb)).