Basic Tags(Step 3)
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You can adjust the colors to display your webpage in an easy to read, attractive manner. You can either use 16 predefined color names or the hexidecimal number listed on the back inside cover of your text. You can also open up Photoshop and click on the color palette to find hexadecimal numbers for thousands of other colors.

To change the color of the background:
<body bgcolor="#xxxxxx"> where xxxxxx is the six hexadecimal numbers. If you use a predefined color name, do not include the # sign. Note: Do not add another <BODY> tag to your page. The bgcolor attribute is added to the existing body tag. You may also change the color of a table background this way within the table tag.

To change the color of text use the color attribute within the font tag. ex. <font color=silver> Remember to use the </font> tag when you want the new color to stop.

You can also change the colors of your links within the body tag. The default link colors are usually blue or purple. I had to change the colors of the links on the bottom of this page because I used a black background. Insert the following attributes within the body tag:
<body link="#xxxxxx">Changes the color of all links on the page before the user visits them.
<body vlink="#xxxxxx">Changes the color of visited links after they have been clicked.
<body alink="#xxxxxx">Changes the color of active links as they are clicked.

1. Tell the browser that this is an HTML document.
2. Format the text.
3. Specify the colors.

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