Learning About the Available Web Colours to Use

When one wants to design a great website, it is usually best to incorporate some paint to make it more attractive. This helps to attract more people to the page. There are numerous options one has when it comes to picking the shades that will be used. These are usually specified in a hexadecimal format and you can make use of graphics software to get the desired shades. Some of the most important details one should know about this includes:
 
Hex Triplet
This is a 6 digit number that is normally used to represent CSS colours. It usually represents green, blue and red components where one byte falls in between 00 –FF in the hexadecimal notation or 0-225 in the decimal notation. One can get a mixture by concatenating the digits together to form one shade that will be used for the page. One can change the CSS colours to a hexadecimal value by dividing the value by 16. There are handheld as well as software calculators that can be used for the job making it much simpler for one to achieve the shade they want.

Html Colour Names
This has a list of 16 different shades i.e. white, gray, silver, back, maroon, red, lime, olive, yellow, teal, aqua, green, fuchsia, navy, blue and purple, These are all supported by Windows VGA palette. They are also accepted by the SVG full user agent but are not a part of the SVG tiny. These are also referred to as RGB without a space meaning they should not be used to select the shades one wants directly from the websites. The HTML colour names available include: crimson, dark and light salmon, light coral and Indian red.

Web Safe Colour
These are about 216 shades that normally display non- dithered, consistent and solid on the monitor. It does not contain the average 256 shades as they don’t all appear the same on the machine. This can be compared the process where Windows opens word processor to create a Macintosh and one views a number of odd characters in places where punctuation and other characters should be. The shade that is normally displayed almost the same on the computer is known as a web safe colour. It is possible for a person to create their own shades by recreating the already available shades. The shades can be used in a number of circumstances like:
•    If the page has a solid painted background- this way you can be sure that the page remains attractive and you will not get embarrassed when the CSS colour is viewed on other PC platforms as the background remains non dithered and clean.
•    There is an invisible background- this works out perfectly as it reduces the number of problems associated with the display. When one uses a transparent shade, it can result in a dithered transparency when content is viewed on other browsers
•    When image or text is created using a transparent CSS colour in the background, it is important to choose the exact shade or something that comes close to lessen the contrast.