2.  To specify blue as the background color for a page, put bgcolor=“blue” inside the tag. Of course, you can use many colors other than blue. You can choose from the 16 standard Windows colors.  You can also call magenta by the name fuchsia and cyan by the name aqua if you want to feel more artsy and less geeky.

3.  You can also specify colors for text and links in the tag. For example:  There are three separate attributes for link colors: link – “yellow” makes links that haven’t been visited recently yellow. vlink – “lime” makes recently visited links lime green. alink – “red” makes links briefly blink red when some clicks them.

4.  If the 16 colors don’t include the exact hue you’re after, you can mix your own custom colors by specifying how much red, green and blue light should be mixed into each color.  The format is #rrggbb where rr, gg, and bb are two-digit hexadecimal values for the red, green and blue components of the color.

5.  Just remember that ff is the maximum and 00 is the minimum, and use of the following codes for each component: ff means full brightness cc means 80 percent brightness 99 means 60 percent brightness 66 means 40 percent brightness 33 means 20 percent brightness 00 means none of this color component

6.  For example, bright red is #ff0000,dark green is #003300, bluish purple is #660099, and medium gray is #999999.  You can also use hexadecimal color codes in the tag.

7.  Keep in mind that even though you can specify millions of different colors, some computers are set to display on the 16 named colors. Other computers only reliably display 216 colors in the color code.  You should be aware that different computer monitors may display colors in very different hues.  The moral of the story: Stick to the named colors and don’t waste time mucking with hexadecimal color codes, unless you have precise control over your intended audience’s computer displays and to be safe, do test your page on different monitors if possible.

8.  Background tiles let you specify an image to be used as wallpaper pattern behind all text and graphics in a document. You put the image filename after the background= in the tag at the beginning of your page.  Like other Web graphics, background tiles must be in either the GIF or JPEG file format.

9. TagAttributeFunctions … Encloses the body (text and tags) of the HTML document background=“…”The name or address of the image to tile on the page background bgcolor=“…”The color of the page background text=“…”The color of the page’s text link=“…”The color of unfollowed links alink=“…”The color of activated links vlink=“The color of followed links