Most website builders offer swatch palettes with a rather garish selection of "web safe" colors. Weebly is no different, except, thankfully, they let you enter your own colors, too.
Since computer monitors are much more sophisticated than they were when that "web safe" distinction was made, you can choose other, more subtle colors for your site with confidence. The next thing is how to find the codes for the colors . . ..
Since computer monitors are much more sophisticated than they were when that "web safe" distinction was made, you can choose other, more subtle colors for your site with confidence. The next thing is how to find the codes for the colors . . ..
Kuler: My favorite source of color inspiration is Kuler, which is an adobe site. You can select a theme and find the hex code for any of the colors shown by clicking on the little square icon to the left of the News & Features column. Just know that you will need to add a hashtag (#) before the hex code when you use it in your Weebly site (see below).
DigitalColor Meter: Macs come with a free app called DigitalColor Meter, which can be found in your Applications or Utilities folder. Select the "RGB as Hex Value, 8-bit" setting and use its eyedropper tool to sample colors you might like to use. You can sample from any image on your desktop, including images you have on your site and anything you can view on a browser.
The hex code will appear in DigitalColor Meter's three windows. Copy down the number pairs in order (R first, G next, etc.) and add a hashtag at the beginning when you enter the code into the white window on the swatch palette. For example, the yellow subheads on this page are R=CC, G=99, and B=33, hence the hex code is #CC9933.
Eyedropper: I've heard there's an app which works on a PC, called Eyedropper, but have not used it.
DigitalColor Meter: Macs come with a free app called DigitalColor Meter, which can be found in your Applications or Utilities folder. Select the "RGB as Hex Value, 8-bit" setting and use its eyedropper tool to sample colors you might like to use. You can sample from any image on your desktop, including images you have on your site and anything you can view on a browser.
The hex code will appear in DigitalColor Meter's three windows. Copy down the number pairs in order (R first, G next, etc.) and add a hashtag at the beginning when you enter the code into the white window on the swatch palette. For example, the yellow subheads on this page are R=CC, G=99, and B=33, hence the hex code is #CC9933.
Eyedropper: I've heard there's an app which works on a PC, called Eyedropper, but have not used it.
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