Translating Hex Colors to HSL

Hi everyone,
I am pretty new to Dreamweaver, and web design in general, so forgive me if this seems to be a silly question. I recently found out that it is possible to input colors using HSL notation. This is amazing for me, using this I can choose colors much more effectively. As a person trained in art and design, this notation makes much more sense to my brain than hex or even rgb notation.
However, there are many browsers that do not yet recognize HSL notation, not to mention the color sampling tools in Dreamweaver give hex code numbers. What I am wondering is, is there an easy way to make Dreamweaver change the notation? I know in other Adobe products you can change the units of measurement easily, for instance in Illustrator, you just have to type =px in a given field, to change the notation to pixels. I haven't been able to find anything like this in Dreamweaver yet.
Basically, what I want to be able to do is input my colors using HSL notation, and change them to hex before publishing. I also would like to be able to change them FROM hex to HSL when I sample colors, it just makes finding harmonious colors much more intuitive and faster for me.
Thanks,
Jason

As far as using any outside color pickers or similar, that's what I've been doing and I was hoping to do it all within Dreamweaver, quickly, without interrupting my 'flow'.
I know the HSL system well enough to be able to pretty much pick whatever color I need off the top of my head, without looking at anything or using a color picker at all, using only code. It's important to me to be able to use that while designing.
Many people do not know that you can actually type in CSS code such as 'color: hsl(25,25,75)' and it is valid code that works (first image).   It just is not read by all browsers, hence the need to translate it to a notation they do read (Internet Explorer specifically is the one that won't play nice).
John's suggestion doesn't quite do it if the color is already coded as HSL, it won't change it to Hex on enter. It does so if the color has not yet been established, or if it began as hex. However, if I hover the eyedropper over the hsl color once the swatches are opened, then it gives me the hex value that I can type in for the translation (2nd image, it doesn't show the eyedropper in the screencap, but it's on the little color box).   It's a little more work than I would like, but it does do the job, and it is a fast translation without using an outside source.
I think my answer will be a combination of this method, and the hsl2rgb script found on one of the links that vw2 provided. It says that it can translate all HSL to RGB in a CSS file.    My problem is, being as new as I am to web design, I am not 100% sure how to make the script work, but if it lets me code everything in HSL, then I will learn.
Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. You have all been helpful.

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