HTML Colour

Colour Coding in HTML
Named Colour You can name colour as in colour names ="red". However it is best to use hex values for colour. Hex colour HTML colors are defined using a hexadecimal notation for the combination of Red, Green, and Blue color values (RGB). The lowest value that can be given to one of the light sources is 0 (hex #00). The highest value is 255 (hex #FF). e.g. White is #FFFFFF, background colour of this page is #8BAFD3
	Background Colour bgcolor attribute inside the opening body tag colour.html <body bgcolor="red" text="black">
	Background Colour with Hex code This time using hex codes to specify the background colour of the bgcolor attribute and the text colour colour2.html <body bgcolor="#666666" text="#cccccc"> This creates a dark grey background with a paler grey text. Note: when specifying hex colour values ensure that # is included at the start.
	Coloured Links In the links section we looked at how you can specify colour values for links in the body tag. urls2.html <body text="#000000" link="#FF0000" alink="#000000" vlink="#00FF00"> If you don't specify the colours for text and links, the standard default linking colours are: Text=black Link=blue Active Link=orange Visited Link=magenta
	Tips Colorpickers http://www.html-color-codes.com/ http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html You can select hex colour values in photoshop. It is a good idea to experiment with colour relationships in photoshop, then when you get the colour combination you like, you can use the color picker to select colours so that they become the selected colour, when you double click on the selector box, various colour values are available to you, and the hex value is also displayed.
	Tips Online Color Scheme Picker http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html Colour shades and tints It is very effective to use combinations of shades and tints of a colour belonging to the same colour family. It creates a harmonious colour scheme. Example Shades at: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colorsmore.asp?color=0
Colour Picker in Photoshop. Create New file in photoshop, experiment with background colours and text colours, if you wish to experiment with colour shade relationships a tip is when choosing the colour for the text, use the color picker tool to select the background colour then adjust the colour slider...here you will have a choice of colour tones in the same colour family.
Useful Resources http://www.lynda.com/hex.html http://www.builder.com/Graphics/CTips/ss01.html http://www.html-color-codes.com http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/color/index.htm http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html http://www.coolhomepages.com/cda/color/ Colorpicker software colorpicker software Example Colour Values http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp My own Gathering of links and Resources on Colour http://homepage.eircom.net/~musima/colourtheory/colourtheory.htm
Interesting Example Sites that use colour http://www.smartmoney.com http://www.huihui.de http://www.copyrightdavis.com http://www.clevelandbrowns.com/