Color Tutorials

A Quick Color Explanation by Joe Burns, Ph.D. A must read.

Non-Dithering Colors by Joe Burns, Ph.D. A must read.

Hex and Word Colors Codes by Joe Burns, Ph.D.

Color Tutorials by Joe Burns, Ph.D., the best place to go for information.

Color Charts with Hexcode Values

Lynda Weinman's The Browser-Safe Color Palette (very good information here)

hue [The organization by hue puts these colors in order by color]

value [The organization by value puts these colors in order of light, middle values and darks]

Web Diner's Hexcode Color Chart

Setting Background and Text Colors at Bare Bones.

William I. Johnston's ColorCube site

Color Picking programs

Mediarama's Color Page Builder, enter the RBG values for all the Body tag elements and the hexcode is created along with a sample page.

Maximized Software's Color Browser 2.0, it helps you picks colors for backgrounds and text.

List of programs to help you select colors for your pages.

Web Diner's Graphics links, free clipart, icons and such.

Free clip art source, Clip Art Connection.

How to Create a Perfect Screenshot Painlessly by Laurie McCanna

Laurie McCanna's Typefaces - How to Make Type

Shareware font creating programs

Tiles / Backgrounds

Creating Backgrounds from Scanned Objects by Laurie McCanna

Laurie McCanna's Photoshop Tips for Seamless Pattern Tiles without Filters (here is another tutorial from another site)

Corel PhotoPaint Tip for Seamless Pattern Tiles without Filters by Laurie McCanna

Create Seamless Pattern Tiles with PaintShop Pro 4.1 by Laurie McCanna

Tile Programs

Shareware seamless tile programs or try this.

(Iris- freeware to create tiles; Pegtop software is shareware at $25USD; The Image Tiler, is freeware; Gliftic)

Flaming Pear offers some free software and some other software from them.