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Creating Your Own Color Schemer
By Karthik Viswanathan on Saturday, February 28th, 2009 | Tags: inspiration, javascript | No Comments »
It is very easy for designers to lose inspiration after they’ve exhausted many ideas. They want to see something new. Typical layouts become trivial and too common. Many color combinations seem plain and boring. In order to remedy this problem, a color schemer may be created.
By a color schemer, we do not mean a full fledged, scientifically proven generator. There is a very simple way to obtain new and exciting colors: randomness. Using JavaScript and HTML, it is possible to create a random color generator which can be very helpful in finding new inspiration.
Generating random colors? It may not sound too interesting. These were exactly our thoughts. On the contrary, once we experienced such a generator for ourselves, examining new color combinations became easy and fun. Looking at the bad colors that were produced gave us some entertainment.
Poll: What are your feelings about Lateral Code?
By Karthik Viswanathan on Friday, February 27th, 2009 | Tags: ideas, inspiration | 3 Comments »
Throughout our history, we have written about many CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and PHP topics. In order to obtain input from you, our visitors, we would like to have a poll.
Theme: Touches of Spring
By Patrick Lin on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 | Tags: theme | No Comments »
Another Free Theme today, something I’ve been sitting on for a long while now. I call it Touches of Spring.
Right now, we have a hard code copy available, but versions for WordPress and Habari should be up before long.
Free New Theme: Pure Royalty
By Karthik Viswanathan on Monday, February 23rd, 2009 | Tags: theme | No Comments »
Today we are releasing another free theme. It’s called Pure Royalty.
30 Poor Color Combinations
By Karthik Viswanathan on Saturday, February 21st, 2009 | Tags: design, ideas | No Comments »
Web designers may choose poor color combinations while producing a site. In order to prevent such calamities (and to have some fun), we present 30 such mixtures that should not be used:
- #E96AAE on #27AC1F
- #934638 on #3426FE
- #18A4C7 on #D97B9C
