colour picker to the tool, if I can find an easy-to-implement one on the
gallery.
You can already save the results of this tool, or email them. Since it uses
the "get" method in the form, you can just copy the url and email it or
bookmark it, and it'll give you the same results every time. You can send
it to someone else too - say a client - and get them to have a look at the
same colours you are seeing. That was the primary motivation for me to make
this in the first place. I got annoyed with a colour schemer that was
wonderful but there was no way to save the work.
I have a development page for every site I do. It has the common settings
listed so I can refer to them any time I need. For example it has all the
application settings listed, database passwords, etc, and links to this
tool for the major colours I use. (Oh yes it's not on the actual site!! I
don't keep all that stuff there! It's on my off-line machine!). I got the
idea for that from one of the 27,649 renovation shows on our TV - the
designer had this "story board" she called it, with swatches of all the
fabrics she uses in a renovation, and the colours, bits of floor tiles etc
so when she goes shopping for stuff, she takes it with her and has real
samples of everything to compare colours etc with. I figured that would be
a useful thing to have for a web site. Once you've settled on a design, you
need to make sure you do all the development etc consistent with that
design. This tool gives you colours that are lighter and/or darker versions
of the colours you have specified for your design.
It's at http://afpwebworks.com/colourschemer if you havent seen it yet
folks. (Note the Australian COLOUR not the American COLOR)
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 2 April 2004 2:17 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: New CFMX Colour Scheme tool on line.
something like this that could be saved would be nice
http://www.alphabuilder.com/
> A colour picker to assist with choosing would be a great addon feature.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 2 April 2004 7:31 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: New CFMX Colour Scheme tool on line.
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> 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. If you have coldfusion servers yourself, I am going to put it
> in the dev gallery at Macromedia soon.
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>
> 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 can't be saved. For example there's 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 can't 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
> I'm working on with the colours I've decided on for the site listed out.
> I've put it on my web site and I'd really appreciate if you could go
> have a look, and let me know if there's any way I can make it more
> useful, any features I should add. My one uses no _javascript_ at all, and
> the form uses the GET method, so you can email the URL and get the same
> results every time. You can email the url once you're happy with the
> colours you've selected and the receiver will see what you see as well.
>
>
>
> You can use either the full HEX colour number (e.g. #3366CC) or the 3
> character abbreviation (e.g. #36C) and you select the number of steps
> you want between the first and last colour. It'll show you all the
> colours in between the two and samples of text in the different colours.
> You might also be interested to know there are no tables on this page
> - it's all done with CSS2.
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> http://afpwebworks.com/colourschemer/ is the address. (note the
> Australian COLOUR not the American COLOR)
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> Cheers
>
> Mike Kear
>
> AFP Webworks
>
> Windsor, NSW, Australia
>
> http://afpwebworks.com
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