1. HTML & Color 2011-2012

2. How to Use Color  Backgrounds-  Usually a light color is best  Should have a color based on a theme or plan  Can have a dark background if…  Part of your theme  Drawing attention to a certain page  Could also use frames to separate sections to show emphasis

3. How to Use Color (con’t)  Text-  Usually dark color  Should be part of a theme or plan  Shouldn’t change more than a few times on your entire page-No alternating  Create all titles the same, all main text a different but same color

4. How to Use Color (con’t)  Hyperlinks-  Can have a different color for…  “To be clicked” links  “Hover” links  “Been clicked” links  Again, do not alternate!  Make all “to be clicked” the same color on all pages

5. Types of Color  16 Basic Colors  Aqua, Black, Blue, Fuchsia, Gray, Green, Lime, Maroon, Navy, Olive, Purple, Silver, Teal, White & Yellow  Can be seen on browsers without issue  Hexadecimal  Specifying the RGB (red-green-blue) values in each color  6 digit value, can include letters or numbers

6. Problems with Colors  Not all monitors see the same amount of colors  The “16 Colors” are safe thought  Hexadecimal, might not be

7. Play with Color  http://www.mathsisfun.com/hexad ecimal-decimal-colors.html http://www.mathsisfun.com/hexad ecimal-decimal-colors.html  http://www.december.com/html/s pec/color.html http://www.december.com/html/s pec/color.html  http://html-color-codes.com/ http://html-color-codes.com/

8. Go to one of the color websites and list your favorite color for… 1. Red 2. Blue 3. Green 4. Yellow 5. Pink 6. Purple 7. Gray 8. Orange 9. Brown 10. YOUR Favorite overall color