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Web Site color calculators

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:55:11 GMT

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not creative at all. My wife practically has to dress me in the mornings... I really have no eye for colors at all. In an effort to make my web site colors “pretty”, I had to find something to help me with the colors.

Of course, when designing web pages, colors aren't as simple as just Red, White or blue. You've got to know the either the HEX, RGB, or HSV values to really get the colors you want. CSS does allow for general colors to be named, but how many of you use just the general colors?

I found a couple of web sites that are helpful when picking colors or color schemes for web pages.

http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

http://www.drpeterjones.com/colorcalc/

http://www.pitt.edu/~nisg/cis/web/cgi/rgb.html

Fell free to add to the list if you have other you like.

Later,

Mark

I'm running naked today...

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:01:33 GMT

I removed all the CSS from my Spot today, just playing around, but it's kinda cool. Kinda reminds me of the vintage Internet days. Lots of text with one or two pictures....

I think I'll run naked (css-less) for a day, unless it'll cause a problem with Instantspot. Dave or Aaron?

Dressing my spot up...

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:19:15 GMT

I have a little bit of time today, so I thought I would dress my spot up a bit. I finally got a headshot added. It was amazingly hard to find a current pic of myself. As I look thru the gigs of pictures I have, most of the pics are of my kids. Anyway. As I'm looking for ways to make my spot a bit more friendly, I found myself looking for some good header pics. I really didn't find to many, but it got me to thinking about stock photographs used on web pages. I found one good "free" stock photo site: http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml. I'm curious though, do any of you fellow spotted people or bloggers out there have any good "free" stock photo site you like and would share with the group?

I'm going to hopefully use some of the Style Manager features this afternoon, so keep an eye out. I'm not creative at all, so my spot may become very ugly very soon. LOL

Thanks,
Mark

CF Newbieness and Hello

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:42:07 GMT

Well, Hello. My name is Mark Brown. This is my first blog, so bear with me.

I decided to start this thing because I'm learning some new skills. I'm a IT Manager, and am very familiar with pc's, servers, networks, blah, blah, blah. It dawned on me a few months ago that I needed to learn some new skills. On the advice from a friend, Mike, I decieded to learn Web Application Programming using ColdFusion. So, I figured, that sounds easy enough, and started. First problem I ran into was, I HAVE NO PROGAMMING EXPERIENCE. None. Ziltch. Nada. I've written a few batch scripts for login scripts on my Novell servers at work, but other than that I was clueless. Well, I'm still clueless, but an learning more by the day. You web programmers talk your own language. I'm Starting to understand some of it, but hey, life is just one big learning curve. Right?

Anyway, I'm about 6 months into it. I haven't been hitting it too hard, but have learned quite a bit. About a month ago I launched my family website, http://www.thebrownhomeonline.com. I did it with Coldfusion and it seemed fairly straight forward. It's got a private section that took me a while to figure out how to do the security, and the initial learning about frameworks to keep the maintenance of it easy were a bit difficult for me, but I eventually got it with some very generous help from Mike.

I've got a couple other projects I'm working on, which I'll talk about later.

Main reason for this blog entry is just to Introduce myself, and give you all a idea of what to expect from this blog.

What I'm hoping to accomplish here is to document my journey from total cluelessness in ColdFusion and web apps to my finished products. I hope to be able to help other newbies find good resources I've used, and/or document some of the hurdles I ran into throughout this process and how I overcame them. You'll probably also get to see some of my rants and raves on wide variety of subjects. Lucky YOU!!!

So, there you have it.

Later,

Mark