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Color Schemer

Color Schemer

For web designers, choosing a color scheme for a website can be a daunting task. Choosing the right colors for a website sometimes can be the difference. One of my favorite website to get some color inspiration is Color Schemer Online.

Color Schemer Online provides a palette of colors that will complement your base color. It will lay out a color grid of 16 colors in a 4 x4 grid. The online tool can also lighten or darken your base color, a feature which I find extremely useful.

There is PC and Mac version of this tool and its called ColorSchemer Studio 2, which give you ways to find matching colors from a color wheel, or from thousands of color schemes available online. The software costs about $49, a steal in my opinion.

The software also comes with a Photo Schemer where you can drop an existing photo and create your own color scheme based on that photo image. Finally, there’s a QuickPreview which allows you to test the colors you’ve selected on predetermined layouts.

In this layout, I am using a blog layout with a left-handed sidebar. I’m using a color scheme that was previously generated from the previous color wheel.

I use the online tool primarily, but the software is a great. Definitely worth a try.

Upgrade To WordPress 3.0.3

I upgraded to WordPress 3.0.2 just the other day. Now WordPress 3.0.3 is out. This particular upgrade is not critical by any means, but it fixes a bug in the remote publishing interface that allowed authors and contributors to have improper access to certain posts.

As mentioned in the WordPress.org blog, the remote publishing feature is disabled by default. You have to turn it on to enable the feature. You can access remote publishing from the Settings – Writing in the Dashboard.

If you’ve never heard of the remote publishing feature in WordPress, you are most likely not using this feature. So, the question is, is it worth upgrading to WordPress 3.0.3? Probably not, but WordPress upgrades are relatively painless nowadays.

All it takes is a click of a button. It’s as simple as it can get. In any case, I suspect most WordPress users will probably upgrade to 3.0.3.

If you don’t upgrade, no harm will be done, except for the incessant Please update now messages in the WordPress Dashboard. If you can ignore the hounding, you’re a better man or a woman. In my case, I’m upgrading just for this purpose.

It’s good enough reason for me to update to WordPress 3.0.3.

Chrome Web Store Is Just Around The Corner

Google Chrome 8 is just around the corner. Expect a Chrome Web Store to emerge along with the latest browser. The online store will be similar to Apple and Android stores, but built towards web users.

The online store is going to be an open marketplace where developers and millions of users will sell and buy web applications. Users will be able to download amazing web applications by way of the Chrome browser.

The web applications are going to be searchable. In addition, applications are going to be ranked by user reviews. For more information about the Chrome Web Store, watch this video from the 2010 Google I/O Keynote address on Day 1.