I can’t stress the importance of a pleasing color scheme enough. The web is full of colorful backgrounds, but try to stay away from them. Having a multi-colored background will make your text very hard to read, as will a bright solid color. Also, stay away from black background even if it would seem cool. Many colors jump on the eyes from black background, and after a while such a page gets tiring to view. The best solution is to have a light background and darker text on it. You can have a background image on a well-designed website, but make sure that it is light enough for text to show clearly, and that its pattern won’t distract the reader. The size of the background image should be small enough to load fast.
Choose your text color so that it coordinates well with your background color. You don’t have to have pure black text; you can have grey text or brown text, as long as you choose matte enough colors for easy viewing. Bright colors, such as pink, yellow and neon green are extremely hard to read on any background. If you use style sheets on your site, choose the “visited,” “hover” and other font attributes from the same color scheme as your main text color. Don’t take them too far from the palette, or they might distract instead of accent.
Sounds
If you’re like me, you have favorite songs, singers and bands that you would love to share with the rest of the world. Maybe you feel that having some music on your site will enchant the visitors’ experience and put them on a good mood. Don’t do it. Music files annoy many people, and some surf with speakers “off” for this reason. Music files are also large and take time to load, causing problems especially for surfers using modems. Midi files of course are smaller and usually load quite fast, but put yourself in your visitor’s shoes. Would you like to listen to beeping when you sit down for relaxing surfing after a long day at work?