Learn Color Psychology for your Ecommerce Website
Note: This is a Guest Post written by Glen of Web Studio Website Builder.
Colors affect the way how your customers treat your website. It adds up how your clients perceive your website and as well as first impressions.
You may have visited hundreds of websites in your life, and I bet only a few of them made a good impact not just to your visual stimuli but as to how to used it for purchasing, signing-up, and downloading some useful tools and graphics.
As you create a website, you definitely had some time to think which color scheme is best for the business the website will be carrying. Learn and enjoy the power of color psychology as you make use of it for your website.
Orange
The color orange is warm and vibrant. It is the color of a risk-taker, the color of fun, and adventure. It creates excitement and enthusiasm. In business, it projects affordability yet the products are of quality and class. Restaurant-related websites can use this color and add a little bit of purple or blue.
Red
The color red is a very powerful color yet it is also used as a warning sign to some graphic designs. On the other hand, it encourages readers to take action and make purchase. It is good for websites that promote speed, energy, appetite, and food.
Green
The color green is often associated with growth, renewal, life, and productivity. It is also the color of money and wealth. This color is good for websites that promotes health or money-related ones. It is also a good color when building a church website or any social networking website.
Yellow
The color yellow is often associated with children and creativity. Websites with color yellow promote fun and play. It is a good color to attract the eyes quickly. So, it is a good color to use in promotion.
Blue
The color blue is the best color to be used in any serious corporations because it promotes trust and dependability. It is best to use in websites that promote technology, medical equipment, travel and leisure.
Pink
The color pink promotes warmth, compassion, sweetness, youth, and softness. It is the best color to use in websites that promote feminine products for salons, cosmetics, and teens. This color is means that the products presented are not very expensive but trendy.
Black
Black means authority and control. It can also be intimidating, gloomy, and mysterious. It is very good for business though, as it is the color which promotes buying luxurious products and services. If you are creating a website that sells jewels, cars, and music—black is the most suitable color for that.
White
White means simplicity, peace, cleanliness, and safety. It works best for a website that sells kitchen and bathroom products, baby products, and health products.
So, play with colors nicely as they will contribute to your website’s growth and success.



November 9, 2011
10:56 pm #comment-1
You’re site is cool and has some great posts.
Especially like your keyword research post..
JK
November 10, 2011
5:57 am #comment-2
Hi John,
Thank you very much for your comment and I really appreciate your appreciation regarding my keyword research post.
- Felix
November 10, 2011
11:11 am #comment-3
Wow, I’m impressed with the statistics from your top posts And nice strategy to keep visitors engaged with our sites. I think it’s doable as well but will take some times to finish. Thanks for sharing this tip, I will give it a try soon!
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November 22, 2011
1:53 am #comment-4
I have read color anatomy at your site and role of colors in online business. Before this I was only well known about white color that is always considered a sign of peace.