colours, backgrounds and text

[Guest nellie2]

First of all I would like to say thank you to Pesala for these links that he posted on PCA.... I think they are great and would like to share them with you.

the first one is the websafe colour palette

http://www.techbomb.com/websafe/

have a look, it speaks for itself.... very useful if you are building a few pages.

the second is a colour tester... it will test your choice of background colour against your choice of text colour. A great resource and certainly one for the favourites folder I think.

http://www.tesspub.com/colours.html

[Emmadw]

Nellie

Can I add http://more.btexact.com/people/rigdence/colours/ - which shows you how the different web safe colours look if you are colour blind?

It's a bit like the second one that you have, though it includes all 3 types of colour blindness.

The Vischeck site ... http://www.vischeck.com/ is good at letting you see what your images look like to colour blind people.

[Redhat]

Thought I'd show how to change colors of things in CSS for those wanting to incorporate this into their coding :) I personally use XHTML and CSS :sneaky:

To change background colour of the entire page:

.body {background-color:#336699; }

To change the background of a div :

div.heading {background-color:#336699; }

To change the text colour :

div.heading {font-size:12px; color:#336699; }

To change the border colour :

div.heading {border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px; border-color:#336699; }

Tip: If you have a RGB code like #336699 this can be shortened in your code to #369 :)

[Guest nellie2]

thanks for those links Emma.. they have gone into my website favs folder and thanks for your little bit of knowhow too Redhat!!

Amazing what you can learn in this place!! :D