Color coordinate your web site

Posted on April 9th, 2008 in Artistically Inclined by Barbara

Ever wonder how they get all those pretty colors to go together on their web site?? Check this out. It will give you the hex-code for coordinating colors. You’ll notice there is a pattern to the code.

http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html

They also have a download version for a fee, but you can use their online version for free. Now let me see your pretty colors.

Answers for Computer-Related Issues

Posted on April 9th, 2008 in Let's Get Technical by Barbara

Yes, there IS hope!  Found this great web site to answer your computer-related questions.

http://www.computerhope.com/

Someone asks me something I don’t know?  I run to this web site, find the answer, and come back with the information looking like I really know what I’m talking about.  Shhhhhh…don’t tell anyone.  ;)

Fitting square pegs into round holes…

Posted on April 4th, 2008 in Let's Get Technical by Barbara  Tagged , ,

Boxes with rounded corners!!!

There are lots and lots of CSS code out there for creating boxes with rounded corners, but many I tried didn’t work (perhaps I was missing something?). The ones that did work for me seemed to be the ones that use a single image or parts of a single image. The boxes can “grow” vertically, but usually are set in width. One such site that creates the image for you and gives you the HTML and CSS code is:  http://www.spiffybox.com/index.php?

Note that the width and height are set in pixels, not percentages. The height needs to be set at max of whatever you’ll need as the resulting box can always be smaller, but not larger. The width is fixed. So if you want, create more than one width and save them as .png files. You will need to adjust the width in your CSS to accommodate the width of your box. Please note:  They have two “width” settings, one for IE WIN, and one for Mozilla/others. To get the IE WIN version to work, put an underscore in front of “width.”  So “width” becomes “_width.” Also note, the IE WIN “width” needs to be 15 pixels larger than the image width.

So yes, you do need to be familiar with CSS. If you’re playing with creating rounded boxes, you need to know it anyway.  Go to the site, play with the numbers. Try it out. Worked for me!

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