2. Guiding Questions What colors do you like to see when viewing a web page? How can a choice of color affect the message on a Web page? What is text alignment and what are some examples of it? (You will respond to these questions in the discussion forums)
3. Coloring the Web Color choice can be crucial to conveying your message and engaging your audience Colors affect our decisions everyday… without ever realizing it! Web colors can be defined three ways: Color Name (i.e. Black; 16 choices) Hexadecimal code (#000000) RGB code (0, 0, 0)
4. Defining Colors Hexadecimal Color Chart Visibone Hexadecimal Color Chart - 216 Web Safe Color Chart (Hexadecimal and RGB) Color Names and Hexadecimal Code RGB, Hexadecimal and Color Names RGB, Hexadecimal and Color Names Each is a link to an online resource
5. Background Color Background color is defined using an attribute Attributes define the way a tag should be marked up The background color attribute is “bgcolor” <body bgcolor=“black”> This code would change the background color for the page to black
6. Text Alignment As with any word processing program, you can choose to align the text on a page in three ways Left Center Right By default, text will be aligned to the left margin of a web page
7. Horizontal Rules A horizontal rule is a line that spans the width of a web page element Created using the <hr> tag Attributes can be defined to change the default line Width can be defined as a percentage Size is defined with an integer Color is defined by a code Ex: <hr width=“90%” size=“5” color=“#000000”>
