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Some of you may know that I am color deficient. What this means is I can’t distinguish colors as effectively as some people. Which ALSO means I have a hard time matching colors and sometimes end up with web sites that really do not look the best.

Well, I have found a very good solution for my problem. The web site is simply called ‘Color Match’ by <hyper>gURL and really does what I need it to!

Color Match is a website tool showing how to match website colors and help in choosing a website color scheme or color code. Also displays the HTML Color Code.

Not only does it match the colors, but it shows you the HTML hex codes. Also, it gives you the option to download an Adobe Photoshop swatch file for using within Photoshop AND download for Illustrator.

This web site – FREE web site – is perfect and very useful. I wanted to share the find.

Enjoy.

http://www.hypergurl.com/colormatch.php

It was a general fear for the new WordPress admin to look .. well, butt ugly. The color scheme was compeletly different, as was the general layout of the sections. While it wasn’t HORRIFIC it was pretty drab. Bright and .. well, made my eyes burn.

Jeffro2pt0 posted over on Weblog Tools Collection about the new admin and a feature that they decided to add:

Ryan started us off by announcing that WordPress 2.5 will feature two different color schemes. One color scheme will be called Classic while the other will be Fresh. Fresh will feature the newly redesigned color scheme while Classic will contain darker shades of blue and gray. Now, the only decision is whether to have Classic or Fresh be the default color scheme. So far, it looks like Fresh is winning the race. >> Read the whole article

I like this idea much better than having to dig like mad to figure out how to change things back to the tried and true admin feel. What would be nice is if they gave the admin the ability to choose which color scheme to use at installation rather than defaulting to one or the other. Granted you can change this in the admin area anyway, but it would be a nice added feature – and I assume not too difficult to throw in. But, I’m not a programmer so who am I to say!?

Also I will note that I don’t even use the basic admin for WordPress. I use ‘Tiger Administration‘ which is so much nicer, in my opinion. But that’s my opinion, which may not amount to much in the greater scheme of things!