After three weeks of working with GIMP, HTML, and CSS I have a working web site that I’m happy with (www.lightworks-images.com). I’m sure in a month I will look at it and decide to tweak it some more. And by then I will have forgotten everything I just learned and have start over. I like to learn new things so it works out well.
Anyway now I can focus on taking pictures, instead of building them a home.
At least for me selecting colors is a slow painful task. I’m not sure how it works for real web designers, but I just have an awful time selecting colors. This time I decided to use a photograph I liked to select the colors. I was betting that nature had a better sense of color than I did. I looked at a several different web sites. Here are some thoughts on a couple. http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/colors.php did a nice job. Giving me a selection of 15 colors to use and generating sample CSS code (very simple code). I also used http://jrm.cc/color-palette-generator/. I didn’t like the way it doesn’t give you the color numbers unless you are hovering over the color. But I did discover if you select the entire color block and then cut and paste into Word, it creates a line per color with the color number embedded into the colored line. I know there are a few other color generators out there, but these are the ones that worked for me
I hope these sites are useful to you in your color decisions.
Take care,
Michael K
