Gordon's WebLog

If you read this post you will see that I am now hooked on using the Firefox browser. In that post I mentioned an extension called StumbleUpon. This is a great little extension which adds a toolbar to Firefox. Clicking on the "Stumble!" button will display random pages from the web. You can log onto the main StumbleUpon web site and set up a range of topics in which you are interested. It really is amazing what you can come up with. I never cease to be amazed at the scope and variety of sites.

One site I came across recently is DeGraeve.com and here you will find several little routines that you may find useful. One I especially like is the Colour Palette Generator. It's a simple little routine, but very useful in web or blog design.

Let's say you have a nice graphic on your site and you want to ensure that the colour of the other elements of the page(s) do not clash. Enter the URL of the graphic into the web page, click the button, and the page will not only display the graphic (sometimes just a little bit distorted as it is displayed as a square), but also extract a set of matching colours with their hex values. These may then be used in your web or blog pages, probably via the css file.

As a matter of interest, here is the display of this blog's header image and corresponding colours.