Websites' color scheme generators - what to do with them in real life?

Question

On the web there are plenty of color scheme/palette generator tools and color palettes galleries. All of these tools/gelleries show many 3 to 5 colors palette as final result.

Some of these tools: http://kuler.adobe.com, http://www.colorexplorer.com

I know my question might sound ridicolous to someone who is involved in web dedign, but I don't understand what to do with these color palette. I mean, if I have to create a website, how am I supposed to apply this color palette to the website. Which color goes as foreground text, which one as background, which one for the links, which one for the page titles and so on? What are these color palette generators useful for then?!

Thanks!

Answer 1

I think they are mostly for inspirational purposes. When you choose you color scheme you can use it in you design (CSS) in consistent way. There are a lot of design chooses that have to be taken, having palette or not. Those sites do not create you design they are just initial seed.

Answer 2

They are also useful if you have to do a design for a client and just have the clients logo colours, they will provide you with a colourscheme that can work visually without needing to know too much about colour theory.

Kuler integrates directly into Photoshop too, which is nice.