HTML color picker

Choosing colors while making a website is a challenging job.

If you are not a natural designer, designing is the hardest job for you.
If you are a designer however, you provably don’t know the pain suffered by programmers while trying to make a fair looking website. We want THE best but get THE worst, when we try too hard

Anyway, if you are like me who ending up choosing ugly colors, 9 out of 10 times, then let me give you a suggestion. Don’t try too hard!
If you have a friend, good at designing, have him do it for you. If not hire a designer.

But lets make this article a bit more fun, let me tell you plan ‘B’.
Steal color from other websites , literally.
How?
Simple! use photoshop to grab color from other window or make your own color picking application. If you are too lazy open photoshop or make a color picking application, use mine.

A long time ago, I made this simple vb6 program. And still I use it daily (to steal colors of course) . It lets you, pick & mix colors and give you appropriate HTML color value.
The download link is given at the end if this article.

Here is a screen shot:

Ugly?
What did you expect?

To use it:
1) Select a color by moving the sliders, or pick one by dragging the eye-drop like icon at the top-right area of the window near the ‘Ok’ button.
2) Click on ‘Copy HTML’ button, and that’s it! The corresponding HTML color code for the color seen on the preview box will be in your clipboard.
3) Open your HTML editor, paste the color value.

Download links:
->HTML color picker, compiled executable file only (for windows) - 79.0KB

->Full VB6 Source code (because fcs is all about programming) - 44.8KB

Want it on C++ or JAVA, if I get enough motivations, you’ll soon see two more links here.

And as usual, any suggestions? Question? drop em’ all below.