I have been looking for a coloured MOTD plugin that works for 1.6.1 for ages, and I have downloaded loads of plugins which are meant to do this but they dont work. Someone help!
In your server.properties just use the regular color codes, &<code> , but change the & symbol with the § symbol.
You don't need a plugin to do coloured MOTD's. Use the colour codes but directly using the § character instead of the &.