How to find easily what color you need to change!

[psixanwmalos]

Hello there. Many of you outhere have no clue or know little things about coding   ( just like me  :thumbsup: )

So when you go to your css file to change colors you don't know what color corresponds to what board (or link or plain text)

Here's what to do:

1) Download pixie. Pixie is just an exe. When you click it, it shows you in all color codings (html, RGB etc) the exact color of what you mouseover.

http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php

2) Mouseover the color you want to change.

3) Go to your css and press ctr + f. Search the color in html (white for example is #ffffff )

4) Find the results. If you find 5 it's ok. Still much less than search the whole code right? Replace the color with a color that is distracting (like yellow). See what changed. Now you know what you are changing.

5) Replace your html color to your liking
http://www.google.gr/search?rlz=1C1CHII_elGR395GR395&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=html+colors




This is not the best guide ever made, but i'll ask you to make it sticky cause i am sure 80% of the people out there have no clue about coding and this tutorial is the easiest they could try. And for me (the code-noob) works like a charm!


Have a nice day!

[psixanwmalos]

Oops wrong forum?
I saw "Tutorials" and i posted it here. 

Please move it if it needs to.

[hatori]

ColourZilla will do the same thing, a simple colour picker, webpage colour analizer and CSS gradient generator addon for FF:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271/?id=271

[psixanwmalos]

ColourZilla will do the same thing, a simple colour picker, webpage colour analizer and CSS gradient generator addon for FF:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271/?id=271

nice add mate! i am used to Google Chrome though so pixie it is xD

[roleplaycity]

I'm saying thanks for this one too, they're very nice options.