On 30-11-2012, at 2:30 PM, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> (Bunkering down against missile strikes from nice people who like the new standard bland!)

The problem is that really strong colours make it really hard to read the content and that tends to obviate the purpose of a site. It *can* work if you have sufficient graphic design talent with sufficient time to do a great deal of work. In general it probably isn't beneficial to have a site that looks like it escaped from the 1970s
Like, for example 
http://www.sixtiespress.co.uk/
http://www.pinesol.com/
http://www.supervideo.com/
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/worst-web-design-featured-on-web-pages-that-suck-in-2005.html
and most especially -
http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/

tim
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