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So I am trying to come up with some colors that would look good on a redesign of a site I'm working on. I know that some brighter colors will work, but every color scheme program I can find will only suggest to me really soft pastel colors. Does anyone know of a good program that I can use to find cool colors that will go with my site?

Maybe ask the pros at Sherwin-Williams?

I'm laughing. Inside.

Well you don't need pastels or even brights to be eye-popping - sometimes muted blues, reds and greens can be very helpful too. Personally, if a webpage is really bright I can't look at it, whereas if it's more muted I will have no problem staring at it for hours.

Some of my favorite colors to work with are (approximate hex codes since they can all be adjusted):

#3470A2
#EA2A72
#4C9E90

Blues are nice just watch out when putting hyperlinks in.
Or just program them a different color.

If your have a logo it might be nice to greyscale it and put a dithered or embossed version of it and set it as a static background.

Are you doing just some minor updates and color changes? Or a drastic overhaul? Try to keep your audience in mind if there's a drastic overhaul and you put links in different places it can be distracting to frequent visitors.

My boss is doing a total redesign. I have a screen shot and I'm trying to figure out a flash banner and the colors that could be included.

Post up the screen shot

That's funny, one of my friends just posted that link on her journal too.

Oh that's cool. Thanks for the link. I'll send the screen shot but I can't post it. I'm not sure on the level of confidentiality at the moment.