Good question! Gonna make me work this morning, eh?

I’d find out with a little site visitor survey -do a little side-by-side comparison with screen captures of your site in various colors, and ask them to choose the color set they most prefer…

If you’re running WordPress, you can pick up a free survey plugin right here…

http://www.surveygizmo.com/add-ons/wordpress-survey-plugin/

You can also send an email to your subscribers, asking them to participate in a survey, and let them post their opinions. I’d recommend that you offer a little “ethical bribe,” a timely special report or some other helpful or memorable little gift for participating.

Two survey services I use and recommend are

http://www.freeonlinesurvey.com and

http://www.surveymonkey.com

Free version of survey monkey is limited to 10 questions; in this case, that should suffice.

A surprising amount of people (8 percent of males, just half a percent of females) are color-blind -”color vision deficiency,” they call it now -so keep that in mind when you’re designing anything. You should check your own website color schemes -existing or proposed -to see how visible they are to everyone: See

http://www.checkmycolours.com/

And if your a bit light in the design skillset department, you can get some ideas of which colors work together well at http://www.colorcombos.com

Doc

Testing design changes to your website can easily become an expensive proposition. How would you suggest people keep the costs of such changes manageable?

John