Web Site Design - Setting the wrong Desktop and reducing readability

One of the most important tasks of the web site must accomplish is communicating your message to visitors of the site. Make sure that the energy, time and money you're spending produce design that assists in that statement.

Can your site easily readable by all the visitors?

Readability is a topic large enough and covers characters, uppercase letters, thick letters, colors and more. This is an important issue to keep in mind when designing your website. It is not only blind. The decisions you make about any of these factors can affect how your site is readable to anyone.

Do not make it difficult for visitors to read the text on pages with the addition of dark colors or busy illustrations in the background. Patterned wallpaper and even plain can reduce readability and obscure the content on your website, because they can reduce the contrast needed for our eyes to discern the shapes of letters.

Stressing the Reader

Normally, when we read, we do recognize words through forms made from combinations of letters. When reducing the readability, make work more readers. They are not able to read faster, because it must look at every letter. It can get pretty frustrating for groped to read long passages of text through crowded environments or low contrast. Just try to read like dark green on a red background or yellow type on a blue background. Or the words together against a background image that has the words in it.

When the backgrounds and the type of them are colors that are close in value, not just this go away, but may inadvertently introduce a visual effect that makes the type look like it is vibrating.

Give your site visitors a break

Years ago, I attended a university degree of legibility on the computer screen and the results were clear:


Black type on white background is the easiest to read. Type on a dark background light was more readable type of light on dark backgrounds. Sufficient contrast between the type and the background was necessary to improve readability. Background images reduced readability. The more complex and darker than the background, the more difficult it becomes to read the text in the foreground.

So, take a look at your site. Have you set wallpaper for the colors that reduce readability? Have you placed images behind the text important? You type set in colors that do not show up well?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, what can you change that could improve the readability and therefore usability of your website.


Darker backgrounds can lighten or text, or both, to increase the contrast? Can you remove the pictures from behind the text? If you need to have a fancy background, you can do much light as a watermark and organize so that large sections unpatterned behind the blocks of text? If something is hard to use that is not used very much .......