Alvin ONeal wrote: > I'm not a graphic designer and my ability to create css beauty is > sub-par, however, I'm not blind so I can tell 'suck' from 'acceptable' > from 'wow' in most cases. And in most cases I can turn 'suck' into > 'acceptable' or at least 'nearly-acceptable', but I'd like to get > better. > > Thus, I'm looking for a good color pallet and some fonts that scale > well, but whenever I search for a table of colors I mostly end up > looking at one of those horridly ugly 216 web-safe colors. Do any of > you have a link to a good tutorial on design and how to chose a good > color scheme or similar helpful resource? If so a few links would be > much appreciated. > This is a fun color palette generator; take a photo, upload it, and it'll make a palette based on the colors in it: http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/
I find that either using a template as a starting point, or at least looking at templates I like and seeing how they do things is helpful. You can find some freely available templates here: http://www.oswd.org/ http://www.openwebdesign.org/ Advice on picking a good font for the web: http://www.sitepoint.com/print/anatomy-web-fonts/ http://webtypography.net/toc/ http://www.visibone.com/font/FontResults.html And some other links to help: http://www.christianmontoya.com/2006/03/06/14-resources-for-the-artistically-challenged/ http://delicious.com/timothyf/web+design - my bookmarks on web design Hope that helps. :) -- Nathaniel Price -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
