Do you like to do some experiments with your blog appearance? Maybe you want to re-design a blog with new color combination but you have no clue about it at all. Or you visit some other blogs and you really like the header color but you can’t pick the same color because you don’t know its code?

I found these free tools helpful and I thought you may like them too.

COLOR PICKER

ColorZilla is an extension for Mozilla Firefox. You can download it at colorzilla.com/firefox/
After installation you can find it at the bottom left corner of your Firefox browser. Just click the icon to activate it.

ColorZilla

The screenshot above was taken real time when I wrote this post. I pointed the cursor to show where to click the icon.

Here is the picture after I activated the ColorZilla icon:

ColorZilla - activated

I moved the cursor to the text box of my wordpress. The color it show is white or FFFFFF. Cool? Move the cursor anywhere you want to find out the color code of that particular area. This tool works great in solid color only. Gradated color will give different results depending on where you place the cursor.

Matching 6-COLOR palette for your blog

Sometimes when you design a blog you may already have your main color in mind but when comes to combine it with other colors you find the combination is irritating your eyes, dull or doesn’t match at all. Here is a quick solution for you. Go to colormatch5k.com. This page DOESN’T work on my Firefox but I can use it without problems with Internet Explorer.

ColorMatch

You have to adjust the slide bars to define your first color. After that it will automatically generate the 5 matching colors. All the six palette are clickable.

Browser COMPATIBILITY check

There are different web browsers available and you may find your blog isn’t compatible with one or more internet browsers. Minimize this problem by visiting browsershots.org. Just input your blog URL and this site will give you the screenshots from different web browsers.

I just added up a small icon for this blog. If you are using Firefox you can find it on the left side of my blog url. My IE did not show it to me but I will see if it appears tomorrow.

To Your Blogging Success

-Rudi

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