How To Select Halloween Layouts For Your Profile-1

This is time when everybody who is active on social networks is busy putting Halloween layout on their profile. Each one of us wants the profile to look real scary and attention grabbing. Human nature demands praise and accolades and when our friends praise us about our profile, we feel good. .

Layout is the major step that determines the look of the profile. There are thousands of websites offering layouts. How to choose the best layout for Halloween? Here are some quick tips on that.

Design of the layout should reflect the spirit of the festival. Halloween is a festival of innocent joy and fun. Halloween has the spirit of enjoyment that is incomparable. The layout should reflect that joy.

In the quest of making a good profile, the users overload the profile with video, music, colors, surveys, polls, comments, graphics and everything they can get to make the profile unique. The result is that the profile practically becomes unreadable and cannot be understood by most new comers. Choose a layout that looks clean. Let it be understood by your friends.

I have tried to open many profiles and found that it took ages. The weight of the files is simply overwhelming. Do you want a layout that makes it impossible to open your profile? Before you select a layout make sure that it is lightweight. The lighter it is, the better it is. Try any popular website and you will find that the site opens very quickly and pages get downloaded very fast. With a single click people navigate away if the page takes time to download. Do you want something like that page? I believe that you certainly do not want such profile. In the next part we shall discuss more about how to get the best layout for Halloween.

How To Select Halloween Layouts For Your Profile - 3

In the first two parts of this series we found out about the weight of the layout and color. In the second part we discussed about the color of the layout. Let us find out more about how to select color for the Halloween layouts?

We found out that the monitor settings of your visitors will decide how they view the layout. Some of us keep very bright settings while others choose very dull setting. So whatever we select it becomes difficult to find out how the viewer will find it. Best is to chose a layout that has a mix of colors. Mono colors layouts do not have a break and look very dull. While multi colored layouts will look more interesting. It also gives us bigger choice in selection of widgets. For example if you select a red colored Halloween Layout, all your widgets must match with red. But if you take a layout that has many colors you can ad d widgets of your choice.

It is important that despite adding all kinds of widgets the layout and the profile does not look crowded and mismatched. a symmetry must be maintained. The over all look should please the eyes. When you select a layout keep in mind the widgets you will be adding. Some layout designers do not leave area for some widgets. Not every layout has space for adding videos. So when you chose your layout, think about these factors.

So before you decide the layout take into account the factor of weight, color and widgets. It is recommended that you take a tour of other profiles. An observation of these profiles will show you what looks good and what looks bad and how the downloads are taking place. You can also find out about some layouts that you like and go and download them for your use.

How To Select Halloween Layouts For Your Profile-2

In the first article, we learned the basics of choosing a layout for Halloween. The points we discussed were mainly the weight of the page. If the profile is heavy, the page will not get downloaded fast and your friends will move away. What factors make the page heavy?

Any thing on the profile page adds to the weight. To begin with the - layout. Then any other widget that you add. Contact tables, countdowns, music, videos, surveys, and any such widget that we add to our profile adds to the beauty of the profile. But it also adds to the weight of the profile. Therefore it is important that we think about weight right from the day we select the layout.

The next important consideration is color of the layout. The choice is between different colors and the darkness of the colors. Which color should you be looking for Halloween? Black and red are most popular colors. Red signifies blood and black signifies dark night. The layouts are not commonly made in mono colors. You will find many colors in the layout. Choose a color that satisfies one criterion. The text is readable or not. I have seen hundreds of profiles where nothing can be read. Because the font color and the background color are so similar that it is impossible to read the texts. Chose a color that allows the font to be read.

Should the color be shining or mat. This can be tricky because it also depends upon the settings of your friends. You may choose something very bright and your friend may have a monitor with high contrast and low brightness. So you cannot control what they view. Best is to chose what looks good to you. In the next part we will discuss more about the colors and other widgets.