Color Effects
All computer-displayed colors are made up of red-green-blue (rgb) combinations. This allows colored backgrounds for those pages where you want a simple, solid color on your home page. These same rgb values also specify the color of text, links, and “followed” links (links that you’ve clicked then returned to).
When you set colors, they are set for the entire home page file. Generally, you can’t “mix-and-match.”
See samples of colors that are use able by all Web browsers.
Warm colors (reds, yellows, oranges) appear to “approach” the reader while cool colors (blues and greens) appear to “recede from” the reader. Generally you will want to choose cool colors for backgrounds so that the background does not compete with the foreground and make it more difficult to read.
“Browser-safe” colors are those that remain true across computing platforms and whether viewed in 256 colors, 16- or 24-bit color settings. Other colors may pixelate (appear dotty) or band (ribbons of, rather than blended, color). Browser-safe colors always are combinations of 00, 33, 66, 99, cc, ff. All of the colors identified in the hue and value charts above are browser-safe colors.
Rather than using the <body> tag alone, you may add any combination of the options for background, text, links, and visited (followed) links color.
NOTE: These options may be placed in any sequence after “body” within the tag.
The tag, with options, would follow this format: <body bgcolor=”#xxxxxx” text=”#xxxxxx” link=”#xxxxxx” vlink=”#xxxxxx”> where “xxxxxx” is the rgb value.
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