HTML_Color

include component="page" page="menu-html" editable="1" toc Colour values can be created in various tags like FONT and BODY. You can define the VALUE for a colour in one of two ways:
 * 1) Use specific text values for colours (ie BGCOLOR="lightblue")
 * 2) Use a HEXIDECIMAL value for colours (ie. BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF")

Although the first method is EASIER, it limits you to only a dozen or so preset colours to choose from. The HEXIDECIMAL method gives you a selection of MILLIONS of possible colours to choose from, and lets you better match the colour of your webpages with photoshop graphics.

Colour is expressed as a six digit "HEXIDECIMAL" number that represents the amount of RED, GREEN and BLUE you wish to mix together.
 * "#RRGGBB"**

For example: code format="html4strict"  code would have RED=99 GREEN=33 BLUE=00

Note that COLOR must be spelled the American way in HTML - this is critical!

Hexidecimal means that a single digit has a range that can go HIGHER than just 9 - it can go all the way to "F"

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A = 10 B = 11 C = 12 D = 13 E = 14 F = 15

So the HIGHEST a RED, GREEN or BLUE value can go to is "FF"

Mixing the three colours together gives you a range of MILLIONS of possible colours, but we'll keep it simple by repeating the digits in pairs:

RED = "#FF0000" GREEN = "#00FF00" BLUE = "#0000FF"

You can also change the color of your webpage background by adding a BGCOLOR parameter to the existing BODY tag... ie: try modifying the BODY tag as follows: code format="html4strict"  code What colour do you get?

"Bright" saturated colours (ie "FF0000", or 00FFFF" etc) are poor choices for use on a webpage. They make it difficult to read, and can cause eyestrain. Instead, "soften", "dull" or "lighten" the colours to make them more "user friendly". ie. "CC6666" is a good substitute for harsh red, "339999" is a more "user friendly" version of Aqua.
 * USER FRIENDLY COLOURS**

code An "Aqua" colour scheme might be:  code Try inverting them - this may give you FAST ways to develop "User Friendly" colour schemes for your webpages
 * Exercise:**
 * Choose a "Hue" of colour - Red, Green, Blue, Purple, Brown, Orange - whatever you like
 * Create two "user friendly" versions of that colour for your background
 * Make one LIGHT
 * Make the other DARK
 * Use those colours in the BODY tag - one for the BACKGROUND, the other for the TEXT attributes - ie