If you have ever thought about moving your current website to such a CMS, you may be excited to learn of a new service by a company called PixelCliff that can make your move a LOT easier. For a fee, PixelCliff can take either your existing website design or an artwork file (e.g. Photoshop PSD) and convert it to a fully functional CMS template or theme. The ability to take your design with you goes a long way toward making any switch much more feasable.

There are a couple of added bonuses here. The first is that it is fast. From the time you place your order till you get your finished template takes just 5 business days (or 72 hours if you are in a hurry and willing to fork out the extra cash.) The other bonus is that you get a high-quality product, and that means better SEO, better browser compatibility, and should you ever need to tweak things, more readable code.

To check out the service, visit www.pixelcliff.com.

If you’re wanting to design an eye-catching website, it’s always helpful to know a little about color theory. The most useful book I’ve found on the subject is the Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color; I keep it on my shelf as an ongoing reference resource.

In addition to the background knowledge provided by the Pantone Guide, there are a number of excellent color scheme tools online that will help you put together some sharp color combinations for the web. Here are my favorites:

Color Combinations

• Color Combinations – searchable color combo library, combo tester, and website color grabber.
  
• Colour Lovers – find pre-made color palettes. Bonus tools include the pattern library and COPASO color tool.
• Color Palette by Photo – get a color palette that matches any online image. (Adobe Kuler below offers a similar tool.)
• Name That Color – put names to colors. Sure your friend knows exactly what color periwinkle is, but that doesn’t help you figure out what it looks like, much less apply it to a design in Adobe Fireworks.

Color Palette Tools

• Color Scheme Generator – a simple tool that generates some very sharp color schemes from a single color.
• Color Blender – get the steps between two colors.
• Color Wizard – an advanced color tool that returns a set of hue, saturation and tint/shade variations of your color, as well as suggests color schemes to you, based on your color’s complementary color, split complementary colors, analogous colors and other variations.
• Adobe Kuler – another advanced color palette tool. In addition to tools similar to the Color Wizard above, it can extract color themes from an image and display existing color themes made by other users. Big bonus: it provides the HSV, RGB, LAB, CMYK, and hexadecimal values for each color in the palette.

The American Bible Society is collecting video stories in order to:

1. share glimpses of what God is doing through the Bible to change lives;
2. encourage people to engage the Scriptures; and
3. develop an edifying online community of “Bible Advocates.”

At the core of this work is the belief that God speaks to every generation through the Holy Scriptures (Isaiah 55:10-11), bringing wisdom where there is confusion, faith where there is fear, hope where there is despair, and love where there is hatred.