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Color Scheme Designer Is A Diverse Palette Creator
8:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’ve tried out web-based palette generators and been underwhelmed, you might want to take Color Scheme Designer for a spin. It combines the features of many other generators into a unique, easy-to-use palette creator. More »
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12:00PM Angus Kidman | SharePoint Designer, a Microsoft tool for designing sites for use with its SharePoint “intranet solution” (yucky phrase, but what else to call it?), is now free. If you’re working in a Microsoft shop (or just sharpening your IIS and SharePoint skills to score a job), it’s a good chance to check out a ribbon-enabled, MS-friendly design tool without having to splash out $450 or so for the full version.
SharePoint Designer [via Inside Office Online Blog]
Microsoft SharePoint Designer Now Free
12:00PM Angus Kidman | SharePoint Designer, a Microsoft tool for designing sites for use with its SharePoint “intranet solution” (yucky phrase, but what else to call it?), is now free. If you’re working in a Microsoft shop (or just sharpening your IIS and SharePoint skills to score a job), it’s a good chance to check out a ribbon-enabled, MS-friendly design tool without having to splash out $450 or so for the full version.
SharePoint Designer [via Inside Office Online Blog]
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Create A Colour Palette From A Single Image
8:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Colors Palette Generator turns a picture with a pleasing look into a palette of equally pleasing colours for your web site or design project. You can upload any PNG, GIF or JPEG that is less than 1MB in size and Colours Palette Generator will extract colours from it. The application creates three basic palettes of the light, medium, and dark colours, as well as a grid of 49 shades from the image if you’re not satisfied with the palettes it has created. Once you’ve got the look you like, you can export it as either a Photoshop swatches file or as a CSS stylesheet. Free to use, no sign-up required. Colors Palette Generator [via Download Squad] More »
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SynthaSite Creates Your Web Site In-Browser
4:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Web-based web site editor SynthaSite has relaunched itself with a brand new and radically more friendly user interface. Select your site’s colour scheme and template, and then modify it using a what you see is what you get, drag and drop editor. Drag everything from basic text and images to forms, maps, videos and photo galleries onto your pages. Publish the site you’ve created directly through SynthaSite, either at the http://yoursitename.sythasite.com address or set your current URL to redirect to your SynthaSite, or you can download the work you’ve done and host it on your own web server. If SynthaSite isn’t quite what you were looking for in a WYSIWYG editor, check out previously reviewed online editor Webon or if you’re looking for a meatier project to wile away your weekend you can roll your own professionally designed web site. SynthaSite [via TechCrunch] More »
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Open Web Design Offers Free Web Design Templates
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Planning to spend some time during one of those mythical “free” weekends whipping your web site into shape? Open Web Design, a free and frequently-updated collection of site templates handed out without copyright, is a great place to start looking. We’ve posted similar collections before, but Open Web Design trumps our archives for up-to-date designs and breadth of material—images, CSS templates, and standard HTML are all available. The site is free to use, and registration lets you submit ideas and post to a forum. Open Web Design [via Web Worker Daily] More »AjaxDaddy Adds Slick Applets to Your Web Site
8:45AM Kevin Purdy | Need to give your blog or personal site a more modern look? AjaxBuddy, a free repository of Web 2.0-style site tools, is great for site owners who don’t have time to learn an entire programming language, or just need a starter block of code to get building. Grab free, easy-to-modify code for Flickr-like editing fields, quick-loading slideshows and tabbed galleries, instant graphs, date-choosing calendars, and dozens more examples. Many require replacing just a few values to get working, but even the more complex tools are great learning tools. AjaxDaddy [via Online Tech Tips] More »
Find a Complementary Colour Quick with Whats Its Color
3:00AM Kevin Purdy | Some of us have a great eye for complementary colours and matches—and then some of us still don’t understand why brown shoes and black pants are a bad idea. For anyone looking to set an image against a complementary background or find a colour scheme, Whats Its Colour (their grammar, not mine) is a free web app that can help. Upload an image and the site creates a palette page with a complementary background and a list of unique and dominant colors in your image. Photoshop and GIMP gurus might already know how to sift these kind of things already, but the visible colour matching could be a boon for presentation slides or small design projects. Thanks Chris! Whats Its Colour More »
