What are HTML Colors
HTML colors are defined using a hexadecimal notation (HEX) 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 (in HEX: 00). The highest value is 255 (in HEX: FF).HEX values are specified as 3 pairs of two-digit numbers, starting with a # sign. Colors can be produced for a number of page elements using the color names or RGB hexadecimal codes indicated in each of the samples. The use of HTML elements and attributes for specifying color is deprecated. HTML color lets you configure your own colors (RGB input) and paste the results (HTML code) in your web document. Previews fore, back and links-colors. Option to load image files. HTMLcolor even creates web-pages for you. Odes are hexadecimal triplets representing the colors red, green, and blue.
Options/Features
Easy configuration for colors with the RGB-sliders and input-boxes
Allows you to copy and paste the converted color values into your web document
Allows you to copy and paste the full Body Tag to your web document
Can manipulate text, background and links colors and load images
Creation of a template HTML-document with the specifications of your choice
Runs on Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2k/2k3/2k8/XP/Vista/7
Using the correct website color can be of the utmost importance to attract the preferred audience to a website. There is a reason that most poker rooms on the internet uses the basic poker table color of green (#088A4B). Black and Red are also popular colors. Black has a classic quality feel to it and Red is the color of courage and aggressiveness, which are very important qualities of a good poker player. Each HTML code contains symbol "#" and 6 letters or numbers. These numbers are in hexadecimal numeral system. For example, "FF" in hexadecimal represents number 255 in Decimal.
The first two symbols in color code represent the intensity of red color. 00 is the least and FF is the most intense. The third and fourth represents intensity of green and fifth and sixth represents the intensity of blue. So with combining the intensity of red, green and blue we can mix almost any color that our heart desire. NOTE: If you have problems when printing from Internet Explorer (no colors being printed), go to the 'Tools - Internet Options - Advanced' tab and under 'Printing' check the 'Print background colors and images' box. The charts will then print correctly.
If you would like to cater to the 16-bit crowd which covers pretty much everybody, then the web-smart colors are the way to go as it only takes 12-bits to display 4,096 colors. The web-smart colors come from the same concept as the web-safe colors, but instead of using only 6 shades of red, green, and blue using the identical hexadecimal pairs of 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, and FF, all 16 shades of RGB hexadecimal pairs from 0-9 and A-F are used.
There are 256 values of red, green and blue from 0 (hex 00) to 255 (hex FF) giving us 16,777,216 colors to play with and a 24-bit True Color monitor will display all that. So now that you know what you are doing and that what you see isn't necessarily what everyone gets, you can use our HTML Color Wheel Coordinator to design the perfect color schemes for your viewers.
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