At 01:23 PM 1/19/2010, J.A. Florian wrote: >MY problem with ANY color pickers is knowing what "matches", or "goes >together", or "looks good together". I do know what colors I **prefer** >(beige, a certain maroon but not red, hunter greens but no other greens, and >pastels but not blues). ============= Another thing to remember is that not all monitors are going to render the colors the same. With four computers in our home, not one of them renders a site in the exact same shades of the colors I am using. And I doubt that most people have calibrated their monitors. So I use this site http://slayeroffice.com/tools/color_palette/ to plug in a color I want to use and get the various shades of that color or http://www.colourlovers.com/ to give me a color palette based on a color number I do like or this one http://buildinternet.com/tag/colourlovers/ http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/mostpopular?time=30 or http://www.colorcombos.com/combolibrary.html I will occasionally use an image for the body backgound (usually a gradient image) but for the rest of the backgrounds I use color numbers. This is a great site for backgrounds and combination of backgrounds. pat ---------- Pat Geary, Microsoft MVP - Expression Web We discuss FrontPage and Expression Web http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/frontpage/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/expression-web/ http://www.expression-web-tutorials.com/ Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web EBook Revised to include EW 3.0 http://frontpage-to-expression.com/