Super Slick Gradient Maker

Today I came across a really neat time saver. I often have conversations with people who say they want to make their site “just a little better”. They’d love to do a re-design, but it is simply out of their budget. I tell them there are several simple things they can do to make their site look more current. One of those things is to add a gradient to the background. And simplify the rest of the colors they are using. This alone can transform a “homemade” site into a site that has a tad more credibility. The problem with that is they don’t have the software to do gradients and to hire a designer to do it would cost so much more than it should (especially in PM time).

This site http://gradient-maker.com/
allows you to set 2 different colors (gradient start & gradient stop) and set a height and width. When you click “Make Gradient” the background of the entire site changes so you can see your gradient.

Even though I feel this is the best it is slightly limiting in that it works mainly for vertical gradient images, There are other sites out there that do similar things that allow you to have more options:

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/gradient/
http://www.grsites.com/generate/resultbyid/6139406/
http://gradientgenerator.com/

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