You see them everyday. When you open up your browser, a flash ad pops up for BMW or a movie trailer. You go to a website and it has crazy animation going everywhere and you think how it is so awesome.

Everybody assumes their website looks good, then wonder why their site lacks traffic or why people have trouble navigating it.

We'll showing you some good websites and what makes them good, as well as some bad websites and what makes them bad.

Here is an interesting website that profiles bad websites: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com
If you site looks like something featured here, you may want to reassess the success of your design. So lets start.

When we think of oranges we instantly think of the fruit. You think of farmers or Tropicana Orange Juice and when that thought goes, the color of orange becomes your next association to the word orange. The orange is a very old fruit that dates back to 500 B.C. It originated near the South China Sea and traveled throughout Malaysia, India, East Africa and into the Mediterranean regions, as well as Europe. Oranges were know as the fruit of the gods and only the wealthy and aristocrats were privileged to the fruit. This is part of the reason why oranges are seen in a lot of Renaissance paintings.

Green, Green, Green! Just like brown, green is a color we take for granted everyday. It’s everywhere we look on this earth. In the trees as you take a walk, the green grass of a park, the changing of seasons when the leaves get yellow green. All of these everyday things bring out feelings of newness, change, growth, healthiness and more. Green is the color that the human eye sees more than any other color. This is why it can evoke so many emotions.

Chocolately Goodness is what I think about when it comes to the color brown. It’s all about the chocolate candy and how good it tastes. Brown, or variations of the shade, are found most everywhere you look in clothes, the ground, skin color and more. So what does brown mean to you? Below is a list of a few of the meanings that are associated with the color brown and how it is represented.

With Summer just around the corner, we begin to think of bright colors, having fun and that nice hot sun. Yellow begins to pop up everywhere: in flowers, at the stores, in your clothes. And the reason…well because yellow signals to us the season of change when flowers bloom and the sun comes out and everything is so much brighter.

All colors have inherent meanings in them. The color you use in your materials can make people feel certain emotions. To start this color theory series, I am going to give you a little insight into the color red and its meaning.

Red. The color red evokes a range of feelings from love to hate.  Red is the attention getter. It’s bold, strong and demands a response. It causes us to fight or flee. It can represent blood and life as well as death. It is associated with war, energy, danger, strength and much more. It can be mouthwatering as in strawberries, apples or cherries. It’s all about movement and flow and making a statement.

Everybody gets them in their inbox. They come from companies all over the world. They’re email newsletters. But sometimes when you open it up, it looks a little funky or a picture is missing, or you're not sure what the header is suppose to say. Email newsletters can be tricky because if you don’t build it correctly, there is a great possibility that people could be missing your message. To ensure you get the most out of your eNewsletter, here are a few tips and tricks:

You just finished getting your company pieces designed and they are looking great. The next thought that comes into your head is, “Now what? Where do I get it printed? What kind of paper? What are my options? What’s the turnaround time? Is there something out there for my tight budget?”

Online printers have popped up like crazy and with so many to choose from its hard to figure out where to start. Everybody is offering specials deals, and 24 hour printing is all the rage.

So here are few that SW Creatives recommends:

A common "huh?" moment that we come across when working with clients unfamiliar with the rules of website design is that you can't have any font you want on a website. Why? Because the website code for fonts depends on the fonts that are available on the computer being used. For instance, we have several specialty fonts on our computer systems and we could reference it in the code as the font to use and see if just fine on the web from our systems. However, when someone else pulls up the same website using a different computer that doesn't have that font, the computer will replace the font with a default font, which is often something like Times New Roman or Arial.