Red is hot. It can stimulate and excite. It connects to our physical self.
Orange is warm and joyful. It connects to our emotional self.
Yellow is warm to hot. It connects to our mental self.
Green is the master color. It is refreshing and cool. It connects us to unconditional love.
Aqua (turquoise) is cooling. It connects us to our expression.
Blue is cold and acidic. It connects us to holistic thoughts.
Indigo is cool and calming to the nervous system. It connects us to our unconscious self.
Violet is cool. It connects us to our spiritual self.
Magenta is balancing. It connects us to devotional love.
Baker-Miller Pink is relaxing
Friday, May 29, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Just a Piece of My Mind
Color is vital to the repertoir of your average Web designer, and yet many designers don't realize that the colors they choose may be having more of an effect than they realize. Colors are an element of design that people react to on a visceral level. Often, they don't realize they are reacting to it.Once you understand your audience make up you can create a color scheme that suits them.
When choosing the colors for your site, you need to first (as always) think of your audience. Is it a global audience? Is it primarily Western? Eastern? Are they older? Younger? Male? Female? All of these things, and more can affect the color choices for your site.
Cultural Differences
Colors obtain symbolism through cultural references in the culture you grew up in. Depending upon the culture, colors can have very different meanings and actually cause problems for your site.
Age Differences
Young children tend to prefer brighter, more solid colors, while adults tend to prefer more subdued colors. If you're writing to an audience of children and you're using muted pastels and shades of grey, their parents might like it, but the kids will be long gone before the page finishes loading.
Class Differences
Marketing research has shown that working class people tend to prefer colors that you can name: like blue, red, green, etc. While more highly educated classes tend to prefer colors that are more obscure: like taupe, azure, mauve, etc. This is why McDonalds does their store logo in bright red.
Gender Differences
Men tend to prefer cooler colors (blues and greens) while women tend to prefer warmer colors (reds and oranges).
Trends
Colors, like everything else in design, go through ins and outs in popularity. Black Web pages were all the rage a few years ago, and now you hardly see it at all (but it will surely come back into style as I write this). Colors also tend towards seasonality, in other words, the designs reflect the season they were built in: rainy season, whites, and greys; sunny, greens, yellows and bright colors.
When choosing the colors for your site, you need to first (as always) think of your audience. Is it a global audience? Is it primarily Western? Eastern? Are they older? Younger? Male? Female? All of these things, and more can affect the color choices for your site.
Cultural Differences
Colors obtain symbolism through cultural references in the culture you grew up in. Depending upon the culture, colors can have very different meanings and actually cause problems for your site.
Age Differences
Young children tend to prefer brighter, more solid colors, while adults tend to prefer more subdued colors. If you're writing to an audience of children and you're using muted pastels and shades of grey, their parents might like it, but the kids will be long gone before the page finishes loading.
Class Differences
Marketing research has shown that working class people tend to prefer colors that you can name: like blue, red, green, etc. While more highly educated classes tend to prefer colors that are more obscure: like taupe, azure, mauve, etc. This is why McDonalds does their store logo in bright red.
Gender Differences
Men tend to prefer cooler colors (blues and greens) while women tend to prefer warmer colors (reds and oranges).
Trends
Colors, like everything else in design, go through ins and outs in popularity. Black Web pages were all the rage a few years ago, and now you hardly see it at all (but it will surely come back into style as I write this). Colors also tend towards seasonality, in other words, the designs reflect the season they were built in: rainy season, whites, and greys; sunny, greens, yellows and bright colors.
Monday, May 11, 2009
The Cat Ate My Thoughts!!!
Here are some of the easy tips to improve your memory, (aside from, "Bawal ang pork, beans...pork and beans").
I'm an impatient person, I don't read magazines and follow some too-good-to-be-true advice from some too-good-to-be-true writer, so when I say easy, I really mean "e-a-s-y".
1. Pay attention!
You can't remember something if you never learned it, and you can't learn something if you don't pay enough attention to it.
2. Tailor information acquisition to your learning style.
Visual learners learn best by reading or seeing what they have to know. Auditory learners learn better by listening. Recording needed information and listening to it until memorized will greatly help.
3. Involve as many senses as possible.
Read out aloud what you wanna remember. Recite it rhythmically, try to relate information to colors, texture, smells and tastes. Writing information can also hep imprint information into your brain.
4. Connect new information to something you already know.
5. Organize information.
Write things down, take notes on more complex materials and reorganize the notes into categories later. Use words and pictures in learning information.
6. Understand and be able t0 interpret complex materials.
Focus on understanding basic ideas rather that memorizing isolated details. Explain it to someone in your own words.
7. Rehearse information always and over-learn.
Review what you've learned on the same day. "Spaced rehearsal" is more effective than "cramming." Over-learn information so that recalling it becomes second nature.
8. Be motivated and keep a positive attitude.
Don't say that you have a memory problem, instead, tell yourself you want to learn what you need to remember. Tell yourself that you can learn and remember it.
I'm an impatient person, I don't read magazines and follow some too-good-to-be-true advice from some too-good-to-be-true writer, so when I say easy, I really mean "e-a-s-y".
1. Pay attention!
You can't remember something if you never learned it, and you can't learn something if you don't pay enough attention to it.
2. Tailor information acquisition to your learning style.
Visual learners learn best by reading or seeing what they have to know. Auditory learners learn better by listening. Recording needed information and listening to it until memorized will greatly help.
3. Involve as many senses as possible.
Read out aloud what you wanna remember. Recite it rhythmically, try to relate information to colors, texture, smells and tastes. Writing information can also hep imprint information into your brain.
4. Connect new information to something you already know.
5. Organize information.
Write things down, take notes on more complex materials and reorganize the notes into categories later. Use words and pictures in learning information.
6. Understand and be able t0 interpret complex materials.
Focus on understanding basic ideas rather that memorizing isolated details. Explain it to someone in your own words.
7. Rehearse information always and over-learn.
Review what you've learned on the same day. "Spaced rehearsal" is more effective than "cramming." Over-learn information so that recalling it becomes second nature.
8. Be motivated and keep a positive attitude.
Don't say that you have a memory problem, instead, tell yourself you want to learn what you need to remember. Tell yourself that you can learn and remember it.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Practical Suggestions for Staying Healthy
I'm writing this article for those who are having a hard time keeping themselves healthy(myself included) Let's be honest, unhealthy living is easier and more fun. But I guess its about time for us to be somehow concerned of our health. I don't intend to reach 3000+ or outlive Father Abraham, because they say, old age is regret, but reaching 70 will be really nice. Gives you more time to make up for the mistakes that you did, if not totally undo them..
Well, what I'm trying to do here is to come up with some sort of easy tips to help in staying or making ourselves healthy.
1. Cheerfulness should be practiced at all times. Especially during meal time. According to a famous doctor, "Never eat when mad or bad or sad, only when glad." This is really true. We were having lunch one day when I got so mad at an acquaintance, I felt like chopping him up and throwing him in the steaming bowl of stew in front of me, it was indeed a comforting thought, hehehe but imagining him floating in it with that big annoying grin of his...was sure enough to give an upset stomach.
2. Content and simple food are a great combo meal. Each is necessary for a good digestion.
3. Chew your food thoroughly. If your intestines could talk, you'll definitely hear a mouthful...
4. Regularity of meals is necessary. Rule is, there should be at least a 5- hour interval for every meal. This is the part where I'll be having most difficulty with, because I get hungry almost every hour. I had myself tested for worms and other tummy inhabitants, came out negative. Apparently I have a fast metabolism.
5. Usually, 3 meals a day are ample. but for brain workers who are not physically active, 2 meals are better than 3.
6.The evening meal should be light, composed of food that are easy to digest. when sleeping, the stomach should be empty and at rest. You're not the only one who has the right to rest, you know!
7. Vegetables and fruits are not best buddies. They should not be eaten at the same meal.
8. Do you know that milk is not a drink? It's actually a food! (Don't worry, I'm surprised too.) Eat it with some food that require chewing or else sip it slowly. This is actually a great excuse for buying your favorite cereal.
9. Sleeping immediately before or immediately after eating delays digestion, so does hard mental or physical work. A few minutes of relaxation before meals and moderate exercise for about 30 minutes after meals can help promote proper digestion. Try walking, it is the best of all exercises.
10. Avoid hot food or hot drinks. They tend to decrease the strength of mucous membranes of the throat and stomach.
11. Drinking too much at mealtime or immediately after, should not be indulged in, especially by those who subsist largely on starch. The best time to drink freely of water is when the stomach is empty like in the morning soon after rising or a half hour before meals. Drinking at these periods help in cleansing out the stomach. Somewhat like an internal bath.
12. Deep breathing, singing, or laughter improves the intra-abdominal circlation of the blood and improves the quality of the digestive juices secreted. Unless, you're Rihanna, just be careful not to disturb the neighbors.
13. Immediately after rising in the morning, some moderate exercise, followed by a cool or cold plunge or hand bath and friction with a dry towel is benefitial. If you prefer a hot bath, follow it up with a short period of exercise before dressing up. Clothing should not be put on when the skin is hot. Exercising will allow the skin to cool off. Cool down to stay hot!
14. A lot of us now are begining to like, even idolize vampires. Who wouldn't, Edward Cullen is just sooooo cute! But do yourself a favor, be more like Bella and welcome air and sunshine into your living rooms. But if you really adore Edward and you kind of imagine him lulling you to sleep, you might as well keep your living room cool. Hot air is debilitating to the lungs. I'm sure you wouldn't want to have tuberculosis.
15. Look on the bright side of life. Do not fret or complain always. Worry and discontent are more harmful to digestion than errors in the diet.
16. According to Dr. D. H. Kress, "a heart at peace with God and man is essential to abounding health and happiness."
Well, what I'm trying to do here is to come up with some sort of easy tips to help in staying or making ourselves healthy.
1. Cheerfulness should be practiced at all times. Especially during meal time. According to a famous doctor, "Never eat when mad or bad or sad, only when glad." This is really true. We were having lunch one day when I got so mad at an acquaintance, I felt like chopping him up and throwing him in the steaming bowl of stew in front of me, it was indeed a comforting thought, hehehe but imagining him floating in it with that big annoying grin of his...was sure enough to give an upset stomach.
2. Content and simple food are a great combo meal. Each is necessary for a good digestion.
3. Chew your food thoroughly. If your intestines could talk, you'll definitely hear a mouthful...
4. Regularity of meals is necessary. Rule is, there should be at least a 5- hour interval for every meal. This is the part where I'll be having most difficulty with, because I get hungry almost every hour. I had myself tested for worms and other tummy inhabitants, came out negative. Apparently I have a fast metabolism.
5. Usually, 3 meals a day are ample. but for brain workers who are not physically active, 2 meals are better than 3.
6.The evening meal should be light, composed of food that are easy to digest. when sleeping, the stomach should be empty and at rest. You're not the only one who has the right to rest, you know!
7. Vegetables and fruits are not best buddies. They should not be eaten at the same meal.
8. Do you know that milk is not a drink? It's actually a food! (Don't worry, I'm surprised too.) Eat it with some food that require chewing or else sip it slowly. This is actually a great excuse for buying your favorite cereal.
9. Sleeping immediately before or immediately after eating delays digestion, so does hard mental or physical work. A few minutes of relaxation before meals and moderate exercise for about 30 minutes after meals can help promote proper digestion. Try walking, it is the best of all exercises.
10. Avoid hot food or hot drinks. They tend to decrease the strength of mucous membranes of the throat and stomach.
11. Drinking too much at mealtime or immediately after, should not be indulged in, especially by those who subsist largely on starch. The best time to drink freely of water is when the stomach is empty like in the morning soon after rising or a half hour before meals. Drinking at these periods help in cleansing out the stomach. Somewhat like an internal bath.
12. Deep breathing, singing, or laughter improves the intra-abdominal circlation of the blood and improves the quality of the digestive juices secreted. Unless, you're Rihanna, just be careful not to disturb the neighbors.
13. Immediately after rising in the morning, some moderate exercise, followed by a cool or cold plunge or hand bath and friction with a dry towel is benefitial. If you prefer a hot bath, follow it up with a short period of exercise before dressing up. Clothing should not be put on when the skin is hot. Exercising will allow the skin to cool off. Cool down to stay hot!
14. A lot of us now are begining to like, even idolize vampires. Who wouldn't, Edward Cullen is just sooooo cute! But do yourself a favor, be more like Bella and welcome air and sunshine into your living rooms. But if you really adore Edward and you kind of imagine him lulling you to sleep, you might as well keep your living room cool. Hot air is debilitating to the lungs. I'm sure you wouldn't want to have tuberculosis.
15. Look on the bright side of life. Do not fret or complain always. Worry and discontent are more harmful to digestion than errors in the diet.
16. According to Dr. D. H. Kress, "a heart at peace with God and man is essential to abounding health and happiness."
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