Trying to Find an Online Color Helper…

Posted 2008 November 20 Thursday 23:01 * Jabberings (4)

I’ve been looking online for a good service/site to help me work out some color scheme… difficulties with our internal website for a decent amount of time today.

Some of the pages are proving difficult to use, so if we adapt the color scheme to better readability and so-on, it’s a good thing, right?

Well, it is until you actually start searching for these magical tools.  It’s like trying to catch leprechauns.  With water and health food.  Kashi, or something like that.

Then I found this page: cssjuice.com’s list of sites.  My favorite is kuler, but colorcombos was kinda cool too.

After dinking around I realized that most of those tools gave color swatches & relations, but no help on how usable they are.  So I started looking for a little advice on usability at alistapart.com.  I found some interesting stuff, but nothing really directly pertaining to my needs.  Until I started link-hopping and found out this: Microsoft Rethinks IE8′s Default Behavior.  Microsoft seemingly confirms it on the IEBlog, and then again on Microsoft’s Press Page.

Two words: thank gawd.

I won’t hold my breath, I won’t even plan a damned thing, but please.  PLEASE!  PLEASE LET IT BE TRUE!

Oh, and I know it dates back to March, BTW.  I am behind.  Deal with it, I have.

Have fun, readers.

Skåll!!!

4 Jabberings have been spawned…

  1. Ickster on 2008 November 21 Friday 09:30

    Is it the same website I knew and loved loaved loathed? It should be replaced with a wiki forthwith. That’s what should’ve been done in the first place, I think.

  2. n8ey on 2008 November 21 Friday 17:48

    The very same. :nod:

    The difference is that I’m essentially auditing and cleaning, and in the process I’m centralizing the core components and trying to turn it into a CMS-style web app. It’s slow going, but working so far.

    I’ve only broken the website entirely three times in the past thirty days…

    I can’t really get into why, but today a Wiki will not work. No chance in haitch-eee-double-hockey-sticks. (Okay, I can get into it a little: I receive and read the update requests.)

    Even if the boss man were to say it was OK, I would argue it cannot be OK.

    In the first place is another idea entirely.

  3. Ickster on 2008 November 21 Friday 23:45

    That bad, hun? :sad:

  4. n8ey on 2008 November 22 Saturday 18:48

    It’s bad, but from the complicated nature of the site and the needs and not intention. The site was designed with every attempt to make sure it was using ASP technology to it’s fullest, but it didn’t quite go far enough.

    Kinda like how this site used to be static pages, then PHP-driven included content, now a CMS.

    It’s just such a big monster that starting over again isn’t a proper option. Not with how much that site is used, even if it’s aimless in places. Writing an engine that powers the pages is a proper option.

    A real difficulty with the site is finding the delinquent information I introduced, through not understanding how procedures should be written.

    The funniest part – I wouldn’t understand what I’m doing if I hadn’t been promoted against my better judgment.

    One must see the view from both sides of the fence to understand, I s’pose.

    That make any sense, sweetie? :wink: