Guest Blog: Create a Color Palette Using CSS and MooTools 1.2
As you can see from my site's lack of design, I'm about 90% programmer and 10% designer. As someone that's not a designer, I'm really grateful for websites like ColourLovers -- websites that provide you palettes of colors that look good together. Let's pretend for a moment that I do have a good design and I want others to know my palette. MooTools 1.2 has made that a reality.
Bounce over to the full article at Eric Wendelin's blog:
http://eriwen.com/css/color-palette-with-css-and-moo/
I will answer comments/questions at his blog.
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