RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?
G'day Brian, I'm assuming you're using a narrower monitor than mine, or lower resolution so your screen real estate is less than mine. I've now laid it out differently so it's not so wide. Also I've added the italics and heading text for you. g And now the tool will accept 3 digit abbreviated colours, although I haven't added checking to make sure the colour numbers are valid yet. Let no one say we don't listen at AFP Webworks!! http://afpwebworks.com/colourschemer/ Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of theGrafixGuy Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 5:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions? Looks good! Though for sake of presentation style, I'd have it layout the results in a more formatted manner. The results page looks ad-hoc if you know what I mean. Also, if easily done, I'd like to see header examples as well as bold and italic - but that is just me. Brian * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?
Mike, that looks a lot better! BTW I am running 1600x1200. Is it possible to add in an option for switching between a light or dark background or specifying a BG color - when you get into the off-whites, I can foresee a bit of a problem on the last column. (Just offering my input from a users POV) -Original Message- From: Michael Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions? G'day Brian, I'm assuming you're using a narrower monitor than mine, or lower resolution so your screen real estate is less than mine. I've now laid it out differently so it's not so wide. Also I've added the italics and heading text for you. g And now the tool will accept 3 digit abbreviated colours, although I haven't added checking to make sure the colour numbers are valid yet. Let no one say we don't listen at AFP Webworks!! http://afpwebworks.com/colourschemer/ Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of theGrafixGuy Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 5:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions? Looks good! Though for sake of presentation style, I'd have it layout the results in a more formatted manner. The results page looks ad-hoc if you know what I mean. Also, if easily done, I'd like to see header examples as well as bold and italic - but that is just me. Brian * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help * * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
Re: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?
Mike I think it would be more useful if it had a color picker along with the hex number input. Using hex number input alone doesn't work for those who don't know the hex numbers they need or would like to browser color schemes. I have been using hex values for color long before the web existed and I still don't remember which values belong to what colors. I use a donationware program called iColors on the Mac and it is a great little single purpose color app but I'm not sure if it's available on the PC. It allows you to select any pixel on the screen in any app and will show you the color and hex value. Leo On Wednesday, March 31, 2004, at 01:24 AM, Michael Kear wrote: For my own benefit, I have been developing a colour schemer tool, and Ive put it on my web site for others to use, comment about, help me improve. There are lots of colour development tools around, I know, but I got into doing my own because all the tools I have known about use javascript and the scheme cant be saved. For example theres a great one at http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html but if you click anywhere on the page, or try to cut and paste the colour numbers, it changes the scheme and you cant get back again easily. The only way to record the scheme you work on so hard, is to get a pen and paper and write down all the colour numbers. So I started developing my own, so I can produce a chart for each site Im working on with the colours Ive decided on for the site listed out. Ive put it on my web site and Id really appreciate if you could go have a look, and let me know if theres any way I can make it more useful, any features I should add. (One feature Im going to add is to have it email the resulting plan to you when you click a button, so you have a chart to use as a reference). http://afpwebworks.com/colourschemer/ is the address. (note the Australian COLOUR not the American COLOR) Cheers Mike Kear AFP Webworks Windsor, NSW, Australia http://afpwebworks.com
RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?
Yes, good idea Leo. I think theres a little flash gadget you can add to coldfusion pages that does that. Ill have a look for it. Thanks. Cheers Mike Kear From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leo J. O'Campo Sent: Thursday, 1 April 2004 6:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions? Mike I think it would be more useful if it had a color picker along with the hex number input. Using hex number input alone doesn't work for those who don't know the hex numbers they need or would like to browser color schemes. I have been using hex values for color long before the web existed and I still don't remember which values belong to what colors. I use a donationware program called iColors on the Mac and it is a great little single purpose color app but I'm not sure if it's available on the PC. It allows you to select any pixel on the screen in any app and will show you the color and hex value. Leo On Wednesday, March 31, 2004, at 01:24 AM, Michael Kear wrote: For my own benefit, I have been developing a colour schemer tool, and Ive put it on my web site for others to use, comment about, help me improve. There are lots of colour development tools around, I know, but I got into doing my own because all the tools I have known about use _javascript_ and the scheme cant be saved. For example theres a great one at http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html but if you click anywhere on the page, or try to cut and paste the colour numbers, it changes the scheme and you cant get back again easily. The only way to record the scheme you work on so hard, is to get a pen and paper and write down all the colour numbers. So I started developing my own, so I can produce a chart for each site Im working on with the colours Ive decided on for the site listed out. Ive put it on my web site and Id really appreciate if you could go have a look, and let me know if theres any way I can make it more useful, any features I should add. (One feature Im going to add is to have it email the resulting plan to you when you click a button, so you have a chart to use as a reference). http://afpwebworks.com/colourschemer/ is the address. (note the Australian COLOUR not the American COLOR) Cheers Mike Kear AFP Webworks Windsor, NSW, Australia http://afpwebworks.com
RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?
Try this for a color picker that works on PC's. http://eyedropper.inetia.com/it will give you the hex values for any color you put it on. All the best, Thom Meyer ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03/31/04 21:09:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions? Yes, good idea Leo. I think theres a little flash gadget you can add to coldfusion pages that does that. Ill have a look for it. Thanks. Cheers Mike Kear From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leo J. O'CampoSent: Thursday, 1 April 2004 6:20 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions? MikeI think it would be more useful if it had a color picker along with the hex number input. Using hex number input alone doesn't work for those who don't know the hex numbers they need or would like to browser color schemes. I have been using hex values for color long before the web existed and I still don't remember which values belong to what colors.I use a donationware program called iColors on the Mac and it is a great little single purpose color app but I'm not sure if it's available on the PC. It allows you to select any pixel on the screen in any app and will show you the color and hex value.LeoOn Wednesday, March 31, 2004, at 01:24 AM, Michael Kear wrote: For my own benefit, I have been developing a colour schemer tool, and Ive put it on my web site for others to use, comment about, help me improve.There are lots of colour development tools around, I know, but I got into doing my own because all the tools I have known about use _javascript_ and the scheme cant be saved. For example theres a great one at http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html but if you click anywhere on the page, or try to cut and paste the colour numbers, it changes the scheme and you cant get back again easily. The only way to record the scheme you work on so hard, is to get a pen and paper and write down all the colour numbers.So I started developing my own, so I can produce a chart for each site Im working on with the colours Ive decided on for the site listed out. Ive put it on my web site and Id really appreciate if you could go have a look, and let me know if theres any way I can make it more useful, any features I should add. (One feature Im going to add is to have it email the resulting plan to you when you click a button, so you have a chart to use as a reference).http://afpwebworks.com/colourschemer/ is the address. (note the Australian COLOUR not the American COLOR)CheersMike KearAFP WebworksWindsor, NSW, Australiahttp://afpwebworks.com
RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?
Title: Message Thanks Leslie. I did know that table didnt display properly in some browsers. Its a footer file that dates back to 18 months ago antique. Im rebuilding my site using a new CMS Im writing and a shopping cart Im writing, so I didnt pay much attention to that part of it. However I want to package this up as a free utility for coldfusion developers, and I have to write a new footer for that purpose. So I think Ill put it on the page you have been looking at too. My new site is going to be XHTML1.0 Strict if I can get it that far. Itll depend on being able to get a WYSIWYG inline editor thatll produce valid XHTML code. Certainly Im going to lose all tables except for tabular data (At the moment only one page on the whole site qualifies for that). This page doesnt have any tables either, except in the footer. Thanks for looking at it, and thanks for the nice comments. Does anyone have any ideas of ways to make the gadget more useful for design purposes? IN my case, Im so artistically challenged, I have to keep charts to show me which colours to use, or my work will end up like a rainbow (see an earlier page also my work but dates back 18 months - at http://www.hawkradio.org.au/bluegrass and youll see what I mean. I think Ill use that page as a before page in a design class. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leslie Riggs Sent: Thursday, 1 April 2004 1:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions? http://afpwebworks.com/colourschemer/ is the address. (note the Australian COLOUR not the American COLOR) NICE. Handy tool! One detail that I noticed while looking at itusing Firefox 0.8, Moz 1.6and Netscape 7.1,has to do with the table that contains the three images that appears below the two text input boxes. When I first opened the page, it looks fine, sits pretty, all centered and everything. However, after entering my two color choices, the page comes back with the chart (very nice, by the way, I like it) and the table does not sit centeredbelow the chart anymore. It's pushed off to the right,looks like it's on the baseline next to the chart. Opera 7.23 shows that table below the chart, aligned left. IE6 looks just fine, table below the chart, centered. Just thought you'd want to know. -Leslie Riggs
[WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?
For my own benefit, I have been developing a colour schemer tool, and Ive put it on my web site for others to use, comment about, help me improve. There are lots of colour development tools around, I know, but I got into doing my own because all the tools I have known about use _javascript_ and the scheme cant be saved. For example theres a great one at http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html but if you click anywhere on the page, or try to cut and paste the colour numbers, it changes the scheme and you cant get back again easily. The only way to record the scheme you work on so hard, is to get a pen and paper and write down all the colour numbers. So I started developing my own, so I can produce a chart for each site Im working on with the colours Ive decided on for the site listed out. Ive put it on my web site and Id really appreciate if you could go have a look, and let me know if theres any way I can make it more useful, any features I should add. (One feature Im going to add is to have it email the resulting plan to you when you click a button, so you have a chart to use as a reference). http://afpwebworks.com/colourschemer/ is the address. (note the Australian COLOUR not the American COLOR) Cheers Mike Kear AFP Webworks Windsor, NSW, Australia http://afpwebworks.com
RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?
Michael Kear wrote: For my own benefit, I have been developing a colour schemer tool, and I've put it on my web site for others to use, comment about, help me improve. Snippety-snip http://afpwebworks.com/colourschemer/ is the address. (note the Australian COLOUR not the American COLOR) Looks pretty good to me, Mike. One thing I'd suggest: make the form method 'get' instead of 'post', that way people can bookmark, email, etc. the colour scheme easily. Oh, found a bug, too: if I enter a 3 digit hex code (eg. #333), then I get a CF error, might be handy for us lazy CSS folk to put shorthand for colours in :) -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?
Michael The right column, has a commnet This is text in the colour #XX Unfortunately #XX is the first colour entered, while it does display correctly as the second coloured entered. Nick * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?
Looks good! Though for sake of presentation style, I'd have it layout the results in a more formatted manner. The results page looks ad-hoc if you know what I mean. Also, if easily done, I'd like to see header examples as well as bold and italic - but that is just me. Brian -Original Message- From: Lindsay Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 10:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions? Michael Kear wrote: For my own benefit, I have been developing a colour schemer tool, and I've put it on my web site for others to use, comment about, help me improve. Snippety-snip http://afpwebworks.com/colourschemer/ is the address. (note the Australian COLOUR not the American COLOR) Looks pretty good to me, Mike. One thing I'd suggest: make the form method 'get' instead of 'post', that way people can bookmark, email, etc. the colour scheme easily. Oh, found a bug, too: if I enter a 3 digit hex code (eg. #333), then I get a CF error, might be handy for us lazy CSS folk to put shorthand for colours in :) -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help * * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
