Monthly Archives: May 2008

DHTML Color Picker

I was working on a project recently that required a color picker. It didn’t take long for me to find Colour Lovers’ free DHTML Color Picker. It’s easily the best color picker script out there (that I’m aware of).

The script is fairly easy to set-up, looks great, and it’s license-free. Colour Lovers hosts the script on their servers for your convenience, but it’s easy enough to download the JavaScript and CSS files if you prefer to keep things on your own server.

The picker works well in most browsers, and it works much like the picker in Adobe Photoshop. It’s fairly hackable too, if you want to customize it a little. Theoretically, you could take-out the RGB, HSV, and CYMK forms if you put your mind to it, for example. The script makes it easy enough to integrate into most forms (though I had to play around for awhile to get it working just right for me).

This is a good script, and well worth looking at if you ever need a color picker.

Tempus Fugit

Tempus Fugit, or “Time Flies” in Latin, is a very appropriate thing to say now. Lately, I’ve been busy. Since getting back from a bowling tournament out of town (don’t ask what my scores were…), I’ve been busier than ever. In addition to blogging…

“Make Money Online”: Blogging Is All About The Content

There are countless “Make Money Online” blogs. Blogs attempting to make money by blogging, blogs trying to teach how to make money blogging, and blogs trying to make money online by teaching how to make money online. Many of the latter hadn’t made a…

BlogBuzz May 10, 2008

The Secret to Getting Traffic: Link

Forget all about PageRank. Fill your posts with links to related posts, on your blog, and more importantly, on other blogs. Don’t hoard PageRank, and try to keep visitors on your site. Send them to other sites, and hope they come back. If you…

The Open Share Icon Project

You’ve probably seen the “universal sharing” icon Alex King put together for Share This. Unfortunately, it’s now owned by the people behind ShareThis.com, and has some slightly annoying terms attached to its use. Alex King’s Share Icon is “now wholly owned and trademarked by…

When Should You Add Ads?

Right from the start. If you have ads on your site from the beginning, your readers aren’t going to complain when you add them in. (Though my advice to the whiners would be to read the article in their RSS aggregator.) Unfortunately, when you’re…

Elements of Design

Most design galleries showcase interesting/well-designed/etc web designs. Elements of Design is not like them. Brought to you by the Smiley Cat Web Design Blog, Elements of Design focuses on individual elements of designs. Some examples include: Search boxes Comments and Comment Forms Pull Quotes…

Traffic Sources: Where Are Your Visitors Coming From?

Check your blog’s statistics. Where are your visitors coming from? Are they mainly typing-in your blog’s URL, coming from search engine results pages (SERPs), or are they being referred to you from other sites? Google Analytics puts an overview of this information on their…

Web Resources Depot Admin Template

Web Resources Depot has released a free Admin Template for use in web apps. It’s a three-column design with a row of tabs, for navigation, along the top. With some modifications, it would work well for a web application, if you were developing one.…