Social Apostle

Social Apostle (aka Dan Calinescu) is the Founder and President of Calissia Media, a new startup focusing on helping Christian Ministries leverage the power of Social Media for effective evangelization in the new millennium.

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One thing that distinguishes first generation websites from the latest and greatest, is the choice of colors. If your site is not appealing to the eyes and if you’ve only designed it as an informational stop then you’re doing something wrong. Information is key but your site needs to appeal to the visual sense of your visitors if you want them to spend enough time reading your content.

Here are 3 amazing online tools which allow you to play with color palettes and to choose a good, appealing color scheme for your site:

Kuler is an Adobe Labs creation and it’s all based on Flash. It’s slick and it allows you to do choose colors, create colors, and designing, mix and match colors. It’s definitely our favorite of the bunch.

ColorBlender is another web application which allows you to match colors into appealing palettes.While not as slick and powerful as Kuler, it provides a simple interface to choose color palettes and it even allows you download your blend as an Illustrator file or as a Photoshop Color Table.

Our third recommendation is ColourLovers, a community driven color design website. It is driven by user submissions and it is based on community input in color and design trends. A good site to bookmark and to keep checking back when researching the latest color trends out there.