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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008 (1:33 PM) Return to Jeannot2k7's blog
Comments on user profile common mistakes
(I'm feeling aggravated)


Background Pictures and Themes Choices of your profile

Almost all social sites and their partners provide a variety of themes to be used
by users while creating their profiles. The catch is customizing those themes.
Well the theme in HTML terminology is a general rule and lay out of a web page in general, its color, the type of fonts used and their sizes and colors, the line and boxes and lots more is not my main purpose in this article.

Advises For Live Video User's Profiles

As a habit I like always when receiving a friends or Groups request to click on that user link or group link and see what is all that about. I visited lots of sites, and discovered more users while just browsing the inside the LiveVidoe site. Beside I am a member of lots of social and non socials networks and see lots more while on those different sites and noticed a very common mistake almost all inexperienced user fall in it that is customizing a theme offered in the site they are members in, using the wrong picture which renders the whole design unreadable or very difficult to read!
Most people when they log in to their accounts [LiveVideo, or any other site] they are on the site's Graphic User Interface or GUI for short, this is professionally done and clear easy  to read, they do not see or use their own profiles to move around or do different tasks on the site so they do not see how difficult to read their site is!
People and users create their profiles to attract the attention of their visitors and the easiest way to make people run way from your site is to have it too slow or difficult to read!
People spend lot of time choosing, modifying and uploading pictures for their profiles then
when a visitor comes around and hardly can read anything will just go away! So here are my
Hints:

Hints

  1. Never use animated gif pictures as a background - this might look great on its own but screws up your profile and makes it very slow to open, not to talk about readability!
  2. Dark pictures makes it impossible to read as usually typing ink used is black -dark- or dark blue, or any other color usually dark.
  3. Changing the type color might help in some cases as you need contrast between your background and the typing, on a white background typing in black, or any other color looks great as long as it is not white or close to white here are some examples [Example 1, Example 2, Example 3].{If you can not read the examples well imagie a whole web page written like that?! Hint for reading the examples place your mouse pointer after the opening bracket "[" and click, then press and hold the [Shift] key, and while pressing and holding on that key place the pouse pointer before the closing bracket "]" and click!}.
  4. To illustrate how colors combinations could work for you or against you here are some examples to see how much difficult it becomes reading your site with this combinations! [Example 1, Example2, Example3]. In these examples I used yellow color to type in all three backgrounds to emphasis contrast effects in the clarity of your text!
  5. Selecting your favorite picture as background can be done if you modify the picture using any of the well known graphic programs; you need to have it as clear as possible close to faded on a dark theme or vise versa, and when modifying the theme's colors you need always to take care of the contrast effects and how much visible they are, lines, typing boxes and their backgrounds all that has a color that needs to be adjusted or else your whole profile become unreadable!
  6. Finally as a last advise, using music this will slow down your page, the bigger the music file the slower the page will load, so try as much as possible to use links to music broadcasts or short clips this is available in few sites, bandwidth is provided by those sites so your hosting server would not block your activity for exceeding your allocated bandwidth!
Well, I hope I was as clear as possible in my comments, I like to see peoples efforts in improving and personalizing their profiles to be fruitful not wested effort cause people run away from their sites!
If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment and I'll try to reply to all of your questions or suggestions.


John M Fahmy

Category: Web, HTML, Tech
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