Geek Mom Mashup

Well, despite the late winter blizzards we’ve been having here in the midwestern US, spring is officially just a week away! You know what that means: spring cleaning!

Do you need to freshen up your online home a bit? Is your background stale? Want to make your badges and banners a little more 2.0?

Here’s a fun, free online tool that you might like. It’s Stripe Generator 2.0.

You may be thinking, “So what? I can make stripes in my sleep.” Okay, yaay for you!

For the rest of us, this is a great shortcut. You choose the colors, angle, width, frequency, and gradient of your pattern. View a small sample, or try the full-page preview. Tweak the settings to your heart’s content, and click the preview update to see your changes *snap* just like that! When you get it just the way you want it, download it.

The best/worst thing about the stripe generator is that you can do whatever you want with it. If ugly colors and sickening angles that don’t tile well are what you like, you can do that! But, please, don’t put them where I have to see them.

For page backgrounds, I like light colors with soft contrast, so as not to distract from the real page content. Of course, there times when you need something bright and bold, too (see my sample above). I was thinking of spring tulips. What do you think?