The Colour Scheme Designer could be just the thing you are looking for.

It has a neat user interface and is really simple to use, you simply select the primary colour you wish to use and then it’ll demonstate colours that tone with or work with your chosen colour.

Once you are happy that this is the colour scheme you are looking for, you can choose the expert HTML and CSS from the top menu and voila a new page open up. This page will display the colours complete with HTML hex codes that allow you to see your colours clearly. You can even view source and copy and paste the style information directly into your style sheet for easy reference.

Here are two images that should help illustrate what I have just been explaining.

Colour Scheme Designer

The exported HTML colour scheme

Why not try out the colour scheme planner ? It is fun and one of those tools that you muck about with ‘just for fun’ and then oneday it you use it to choose colours or to give inspiration where you need to move outside of your usual colour choices.

Most of us have a copy of the main browsers, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome. We may even have back copies of Explorer 6 and 7. However you never know what you visitors are going to use to view your client’s new website, unless you are ucky enough to have some good web stats given to you at the start of your project.

You may look good all the time, but your new website might not

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

You can find Browershots at http://browsershots.org/.

This is a good resource and worth using for those projects where your back catalogue of web browsers is not quite enough.