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A whole array of useful sites and tools for you today.

* First off, this “on line PHP script”:http://www.nickherman.com/colormatch/ over at “nickherman”:http://www.nickherman.com/ will generate a colour palette based on a given colour.
* “Colours on the web(Colours on the web – color Theory and color matching)”:http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/index.asp is a great site which also hosts a “colour wizard”:http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/wizard.asp which from the description sounds great, however failed to work for me with a handy @Microsoft VB Script runtime error ‘800a0006’@ message. The text was also a little hard to read on the wizard page, but elsewhere the site had some great information
* “EasyRGB(EasyRGB – The first RGB and COLOR search engine on the web!)”:http://www.easyrgb.com/ is a very handy site packed with utilities such as a color harmony generator and tint search engine
* The online “QuickColor”:http://kohaistyle.com/scripts/quickcolor/ tool generates a harmonised colour palette in real time….
* As does this “very good looking flash utility”:http://www.defencemechanism.com/color/color_toy_fr.htm over at “Defence Mechanism”:http://www.defencemechanism.com/. This tool can generate random palettes for you, but doesn’t necessarily generate web-safe colours.
* Finally, “The Colour Schemer(The Color Schemer: The Ultimate Web Designer’s Color Tool)”:http://www.colorschemer.com/ is a shareware app that also generates palettes, albeit as a desktop tool.

Note, applicable the spelling of colour from other sites has been retained 🙂

Quite a few CSS resources have been sitting in my ‘to checkout’ bookmark folder for a while.

* “Position Is Everything”:http://www.positioniseverything.net/ is a CSS resouce site focusing on the use of CSS for positional layout. The hosted “Perched Upon a Lily Pad”:http://www.positioniseverything.net/guests/3colcomplex.html design which I first found out about from “Simon Willson (Simon Willson’s Blog)”:http://simon.incutio.com/ is especially good
* “CSSShark(The CSShark Answers FAQs)”:http://www.mako4css.com/index.htm has some CSS FAQ’s and tutorials.
* There is some good information over at the “CSS Panic Guide”:http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/css/index.html, although despite the clean looking site I found it a little hard to navigate.
* “The Nemesis Project”:http://nemesis1.f2o.org/ aims to gather all sorts of CSS resources together. I haven’t looked in too much depth but the “Meta Tag Generator”:http://nemesis1.f2o.org/meta hosted there is very handy.
* Eric Meyer’s “CSS Edge”:http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/ aims to show the more exterme uses for CSS.
* Finally, “Glish.com”:http://www.glish.com/css/ has some more CSS layout techniques.

If you haven’t been already, you really should checkout the “CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) Zen Garden”:http://www.csszengarden.com/. The brainchild of “Dave Shea”:http://www.mezzoblue.com/, its a site with a number of high quality CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) designs showing what CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) can achieve in today’s browsers.