• 3.1: Colors on the Web

      • 3.1.1: Some Different Approaches to Specifying Color in HTML and CSS

        • Cascading Style Sheets: "Color" URL

          You have already encountered several examples of specifying color using CSS and/or HTML and are probably wondering how to figure out color specification on your own. This chapter discusses the different ways that color is specified on the Web, providing examples that you can adapt for experimentation with your own example webpage.

      • 3.1.2: Selecting Colors Wisely for Web Publishing

        • Color Scheme Designer URL

          While designing color schemes for maximum readability is a topic best addressed in a graphic design-focused course on web design, Color Scheme Designer is a tool than can help you develop interesting and pleasing color schemes. The tool can export these color schemes for use in HTML and CSS or it can be configured to specify the colors in HTML Hex codes, RGB color space, or other formats, depending on the color-naming conventions you are following after reading about Color in CSS.

          Like many web tools, Color Scheme Designer's usefulness will become apparent only if you experiment with the features built into its relatively simple design. Try to produce a few different pleasing color combinations and then apply them to elements of your example website using multiple, differently named external style sheets.