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Here are a few sites I’ve found useful when choosing colors for everything from my bedroom to websites…
COLOURLover
Color pallets for websites, magazines, etc.
Color Pallet Generator
Generate a color pallet based on a photo. very cool.
Well Styled Color Schemes Generator 2
Pick a color and find complimentary or contrasting colors.
Widgetbox is an online repository of widgets for your website. My favorites:
You can also “widgetize” your own blog or site to share with others, and produce or find iMix widgets that let you play mixes of music on your site.
Today I googled a concept, and the top two results were from a website that will remain nameless. The content snip that showed up in the search results looked promising, I clicked, and was faced with a registration form. The form looked short, so I dutifully entered an email address and password, clicked “submit” and, instead of having my content nicely delivered, found another form. Then another. By page three I was done. I felt deceived, cheated of time I could have spent actually reading other articles that turned out to be just as useful.
I understand the value of having logins for content. But please… make them short. Don’t ask me about my personal income level. Don’t ask me where I live, if I have a cat or a dog, or if my husband is good about taking out the trash (which he is, by the way). Email, password, and that’s all. Really. If you want to learn more about me, my likes and my dislikes, at least be sophisticated enough to track what I read and where I click. Then serve me up all the ads you want in an unobtrusive sidebar. Don’t be lazy. That’s my job as the content consumer.
WebGuild article on the costs and benefits of registration- link
The free and somewhat open movement continues… Adobe is handing out Flex Builder 2 licenses for students and faculty. Noble, and self-serving… the best, most sustainable model as far as I can tell.
The Flex Builder 2 integrated development environment (IDE) is part of a powerful toolset for designing and developing rich Internet applications (RIAs), an essential part of Web 2.0. link
is a Firefox plugin for Facebook users that will give me way too much control over what I can do with my Facebook profile. Changing skins, site layouts, how I work with images… it’s too much for my brain to handle today. I’ve had it open as a browser window for a couple of days now… not ready to make the plunge, but unwilling to just tag it and forget it in my del.icio.us account. I’m not sure what my problem is- it will be pretty cool. So, as a compromise, I’m blogging about it. A blog post gives it a bit more weight than a del.icio.us tag and perhaps I’ll get over my wierdness and install it this afternoon.
So since I started blogging again two days ago, I thought I’d see who is reading this. And the answer is…. no one 
Google analytics is really easy to use. And it tells me that you aren’t there. I can’t blame you… it’s been six months since I’ve written anything.
So I’ve been gone for a while. I could list a number of legitimate reasons why I’ve neglected my blog, from travel to illness in the family, busy with work… etc. Wish I could say that I’ve been busy writing my proposal (but I can’t).
But the real, excruciatingly lame reason why I haven’t blogged… I changed the template and hated it. So I didn’t write anything for months. I got into customization paralysis. I found some template that I applied, and then got bogged down putting in special whizzy things into the template. By the time I realized I hated it, I was trapped (not remembering all the customizations I’d made). But not to worry… it’s been so many months that I can’t remember what I customized, so I’ve let it all go. Back to blogger basics for me. At least until I forget and try to schlub this over into my own domain.
