What does "flat color" mean, within Web Design?
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There are two main styles of design — realistic design, and flat colour design. These styles both work, but they shouldn't be mixed.
Realistic design is where the elements of a page are represented as they are in real life; objects are textured, light falls on them, and they cast shadows below them. This site uses the realistic style.
Flat colour design presents a web page as a diagram, using simple colours and photographs, and is the most common form of web design.
The biggest mistake people make is combining these styles. New designers are often very keen on using their new tricks – bevelling things, giving them a shadow, applying gradients, and adding effects. These things, when used improperly, lead to very amateurish looking websites. It’s far better to aim for simplicity and achieve it, than to aim for the sky and get half way there. If you have any of these things on your site, try removing them.
Keep it simple.
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