How to Make Your Website's Colors Good

I'm not particularly talented at choosing colors, so I'm always asking for advice when I make designs from people with a good sense.

But I've found a pretty good hack for webpages. You can see the result at my website, http://jimdavies.org/

Here's what you do: find the dominant picture on your webpage, and find its URL (right click and select "view image"). In the case of my webpage, it's this:
http://jimdavies.org/images/jimdavies/2008-jimdavies-webb%20%2896%29.jpg

Then go to a website like the color palette generator and input your image.
www.degraeve.com/color-palette/


It will tell you the dominant colors in the image. It will tell you the color identifiers for websites. Then you can change your website html...

bgcolor ="#111111"

TEXT="#bb9999" 

LINK="#bb7766" 

ALINK="#eebbaa" 

VLINK="#997777">

Assuming the palette in the photo is good, the website's colors will be good too. And even if the photo has bad colors, at least your webpage will match.