Best 13 Online Color Tools - The Magic of Color's

Hi Friends, Here are some best tools available to fill your canvas with colors “ Online or Offline”

1. http://www.colorcombos.com/ - If there's a particular website whose colors you want to snag, check out their "Grab Website Colors" engine. You just input the URL of the site you're reviewing and ColorCombos extracts the palette for you.

2. http://www.colourlovers.com/ - The site is full of features such as create your own palette from a URL you're inspired by, join groups devoted to colors (srsly), shore up on the latest color trends, contribute your own content and vote on others.

3. http://colorexplorer.com/default.aspx - Color import from images, palette export to most programs, convert any number of colors into a matching palette, 1 click palette filters and adjustments, plus no requirement for site registration. With the colorful toolbox at ColorExplorer you can easily create, manage, and explore color palettes for use in web designs, desktop publishing, or any other graphic design process.

4. http://kuler.adobe.com - Adobe has a fetching web app to help you generate color schemes and if you have Adobe's Creative Suite 4, Kuler is built in. Kuler has great tools such as color extractor from an image, theme creation from 1 to several colors, as well as a community you can join and give and receive comments on yours and other's creations.

5. http://www.colorjack.com/software/ - Several apps such as Color Sphere which allows you to choose the right color scheme supporting 18 formulas and 9 color blindness simulations. There's also Color Galaxy, an online color visualizer with colors from 27 libraries.

6. http://jrm.cc/color-palette-generator/ - At this site you can upload a photo and get the corresponding color palette.

7. http://www.colorhunter.com/ - allows you to create and find color palettes from photographs.

8. http://colorschemedesigner.com/- Nice online tool to generate color schemes and palettes to create good-looking and well balanced and harmonic web pages.

9. http://www.stripegenerator.com - his is a fun tool to help you design stripe patterns for your next project. Unleash your personal style, experiment and download the tile. You can use it directly in your css file or as pattern in Photoshop®!

10. http://aviary.com/tools/toucan - Used alone or in conjunction with our other creation tools, Toucan gives you the features you need to inject color into your creative process.

11. http://www.colr.org/ - Play with colors and color schemes.

12. http://www.colorspire.com/ - Do you deal with color matching? Let Colorspire Wheel help you.

13. http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html - Enter an RGB or HEX value, or click on the Color Palette and the color magic flow.

Happy Blogging !

Nitin Chauhan | nitin@maximumhit.com | www.maximumhit.com

Search Engines For Designers To Find Icons

• IconFinder (http://www.iconfinder.net)- Help designers to find good quality icons with less efforts. This lead to Quick Job.

• IconLet (http://www.iconlet.com)- Search Free Icons and Images.

• IconLook (http://www.iconlook.com)- Find more Icons and fasten your work.

• VeryIcon (http://www.veryicon.com)- It contents over 20000 high quaility web icons in more than 1000 icon packs.

• IconSeeker (http://www.iconseeker.com)-It contents about 50,000+ high quaility icons and each icon has PNG, ICO and ICNS formats for Windows, Macintosh and Linux Systems.

• Icons-Search (http://icons-search.com)- Find quality icons available on the Internet.

Happy Blogging !

Nitin Chauhan | nitin@maximumhit.com | www.maximumhit.com

Analyze the performance, strength and weaknesses of your website

1. Quantcast (http://www.quantcast.com/) - Quantcast provides publishers, marketers and agencies unmatched capabilities to measure, organize, discover and transact based on directly-measured traffic and inferred audience data

2. Compete’s(http://www.compete.com/) ranking is based on the stats of +2.000.000 US citizens – this means that Compete is not so accurate outside of US

3. Alexa (http://www.alexa.com/) is one of the first ranking websites with advanced data regarding target population, country rank and others. The problem with these statistics is that they are provided based on Alexa Toolbar. Again, this fact makes Alexa’s data inaccurate.

4. Builtwith (http://builtwith.com) This tools is quite complex – it shows you various information about your site or any particular site (technologies used, seo) and it helps you optimize your site. Very useful when you don’t know much about SEO.

5. TrackingGuru (http://www.trackingguru.com/) From my point, this is one of the most useful analysis site. TrackingGuru is a package of prominent tools to assist you to analyze the performance, strength and weaknesses of your website in order to achieve optimum business return. Tool is in Beta version and its free to use.

6. Dataopedia(http://dataopedia.com/) is a web service that provides comprehensive information (50 different sources) about websites available on the Internet.

7. BizShark(http://www.bizshark.com/) is a direct competitor to Dataopedia. Both sites share the same concept and have similar information. You will have to decide which one suits you.

8. Quarkbase(http://www.quarkbase.com/) is another site that gathers its info from multiple sources, but here is their definition: Quarkbase is the best way to find website information contributed by website owner, lover and the Internet Community.

9. Website Grader (http://www.websitegrader.com/) It has a great composition of information: social, seo, general info. It even gives you hints and a grade – to compare and further optimize your site.

10. Popuri (http://www.popuri.us/) This tools is a lightweight tool that gives you the most common ranks available on the web: Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, Compete Rank, Technorati Rank etc.

11. FeedCompare(http://www.feedcompare.com/) This website is useful when you want to compare your number of feed subscribers with the number of subscribers. For this you must have a FeedBurner account.

12. XinuReturns(http://xinureturns.com/) is a tool that shows you pretty much everything – Google Page Rank, Yahoo Links, FeedBurner subscribers,Technorati, DMOZ etc. It is perfect for a fast small popularity analysis.

Happy Blogging !

Nitin Chauhan | nitin@maximumhit.com | www.maximumhit.com