Posted by Doug
Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:04:58 GMT
I posted the other day about a tool to copy color schemes from web sites, here’s a tool to generate new color schemes. I’m not a trained graphic designer, but this looks like a web version of a color wheel. Pretty handy.
I don’t really like the color scheme of my blog right now. I stole the design from Jan Brasna who published it under the Creative Commons. I like it’s look, layout, and functionality; just not it’s color scheme. I’ll use this color scheme generator to redo my blog sooner or later.
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Posted by Doug
Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:55:13 GMT
I Like Your Colors! is a tool that parses a page and gives you a simplified pallet of colors based on what it finds in the page. There’s not a lot to it, but still seems like a handy tool.
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Posted by Doug
Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:38:00 GMT
For the longest time, all I needed was Emacs. Really, Linux was just a set of libraries to allow Emacs to interact with the hardware.
Then I switched to a Mac. I felt comfortable
SwitchingToMacOSX because there was a native carbon port of Emacs.
After a while, I got tired of the rsync problems with my blog; so I started using
ecto. It’s a great tool that makes blogging much easier.
I do web development. I’ve always said the only thing you need to develop web pages is a text editor; and emacs if you can get it. I’m still using Emacs for coding my web apps. However, I think I’m about to switch for editing
CSS.
I’m really not that good at
CSS. That’s one reason I keep
Dave around. But I can’t get him to do all my
CSS for me. That’s where
Style Master comes in.
I just spent the last two hours or so going through the tutorial. Color me impressed. It’s $60; but that’s a drop in the bucket for the level of effort it can save with editing
CSS. I couldn’t possibly do justice to listing the cool features. I highly recommend the tutorial. It makes me feel like I could actually do design now. It still requires you to know
CSS. It’s not doing it for you. It’s just dramatically reducing the amount of stuff you have to memorize or constantly look up.
On top of all that, they provide over 30 “stylish” templates licensed as
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License.
I’m totally blowing off my long standing commitment to
FreeSoftware. Ever since I got my Mac, I’ve been buying a lot of software for it. Sadly enough, it’s all for the better. It’s possible a
CSS editor like this exists for Linux; but I’ve never seen it. It’s also possible there’s a blogging tool as good as Ecto for Linux; but I really do doubt it. These Mac apps just seem so polished and
done.
I saw the new
Rails Movie put together by
David Heinemeier Hansson. In it he’s flying through his text editor,
TextMate, using all kinds of auto-completion and templating. I could do something similar with emacs. But it just looked so slick.
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