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Also see How to use HTML tags, Tables provide an attractive layout, Put a background on your Web-page.
Judicious use of color enhances the appearance of a Web page. It makes it more attractive and titles, or other phrases, that you want the reader to notice, will stand out.
In HTML (or XML) coding, colors are defined with statements:"#rrggbb", where rr, gg, bb represent the hexidecimal number for the proportion of Red, Green and Blue respectively. 00 represents an absence of the appropriate color, ff (= decimal 255) represents the maximum amount. Black is the lack of any color and is represented by #000000; White is a 100% mixture of all colors and is represented by #ffffff. In between there is an almost infinite number of combinations, see a selection of colors lower on the page. You change text color with the statement: <font color="#rrggbb"> Don't forget to place the statement: </font> when you want to switch back to normal color! Here the text color was changed to Blue (<font color="#0000ff">).
With 256 possible shades of any of the three colors, the total number of possible color combinations is 16,777,216. Of course, no human eye is capable of differentiating between such fine differences.
In HTML (or XML) coding, you change the background color of the whole page with the statement: bgcolor="#rrggbb" within the <body> statement at the beginning of the page. rr, gg, bb represent the hexidecimal number for the proportion of Red, Green and Blue respectively. This whole page is color white (<bgcolor="#ffffff">). If you do not specify a background color, it will be white by default. The following tables show some of the basic colors and their hexidecimal codes, as well as a sampling of different hues and shades
You get the picture? Now you should be able to experiment yourself. And here are examples of some popular colors.
For an excellent tabulation of colors, with their Macintosh names, their hexidecimal codes, and the decimal RGB codes (used in graphics programs such as "PaintShopPro" and "Adobe Photoshop", see http://www.timestream.com/mmedia/graphics/colors/palette.html For a comprehensive guide to the design of HTML and XML pages, see Jennifer Kyrnin's excellent Web site.
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