Colours

The first place you'll see colour/color mentioned is in BODY here it's telling you that

Text is black
(TEXT="#000000")

Back Ground Color is Yellow
(BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC")

Links are Blue - unvisited
(LINK="#0000EE")

Purple - visited
(VLINK="#551A8B")

Red for selected link
(ALINK="#FF0000")

<BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" LINK="#0000EE" VLINK="#551A8B" ALINK="#FF0000">
in the following list the colours are should in the colour specified so you may notice difference of different gadget i.e. the Kindle will only see shades of grey.

 R G B
 - Colour Black
 - Colour Grey
 - Colour Silver
 - Colour White
 - Colour Navy Blue
 - Colour Blue
 - Colour Green
 - Colour Lime
 - Colour Maroon
 - Colour Red
 - Colour Turquoise
 - Colour Purple
 - Colour Olive
 - Colour Aqua
 - Colour Fuchia
 - ColourYellow
 R G B

 Color is based on Red, Green and Blue thus the 6 fig hexadecimal number is actually 3 pairs of numbers giving a value for the amount of each colour, where 00 is 0, 80 is 50% and FF is 100%.

Decimal 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Hex 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F

 Hence if we change the blue value only we get variations like these of course thats just the start theres all the numbers in between too. You may also find variations from browser to browser which makes no sense but it does happen
 R G B
 - Colour Blue
 - Colour
 - Colour
 - Colour
 - Colour
 - Colour
 - Colour
 - Colour
 - Colour
 - Colour
 R G B
Of course we could add other colours to get different blues such as these examples
 R G B
 - Colour Aqua
 - Colour Aquamarine
 - Colour Cyan
 - Colour Dark Cyan
 - Colour Light Blue
 - Colour Light Cyan
 - Colour Light Sky Blue
 R G B

Source Code

<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
<head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
 <meta name="Author" content="nik">
 <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) [Netscape]">
 <meta name="Description" content="Color Commands for htm or html">
 <meta name="KeyWords" content="color,colour, htm,html,web,www,internet,edit">
 <title>Colour or is it Color</title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFF99" link="#0000EE" vlink="#551A8B" alink="#FF0000">

<center>
<h1>
Colours</h1></center>

<blockquote>    The first place you'll see
colour/color mentioned is in BODY  here it's telling you that
  
<table CELLSPACING=5 CELLPADDING=5 COLS=2 WIDTH="100%" >
<tr>
<td>
<div align=right>Text is black</div>
</td>

<tr>
<td>
<div align=right>Back Ground Color is Yellow</div>
</td>

<td>(BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC")</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
<div align=right>Links are Blue - unvisited</div>
</td>

<tr>
<td>
<div align=right>Purple - visited</div>
</td>

<td>(VLINK="#551A8B")</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
<div align=right>Red for selected link</div>
</td>

<td>(ALINK="#FF0000")</td>
</tr>
</table>

<BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" LINK="#0000EE"
VLINK="#551A8B" ALINK="#FF0000">
in the following list the colours are should in the colour
specified so you may notice difference of different gadget i.e. the Kindle
will only see shades of grey.
<blockquote>
<blockquote>                               
R G B
 - Colour
Black
 - Colour
Grey
 - Colour
Silver
 - Colour
White
 - Colour
Navy Blue
 - Colour
Blue
 - Colour
Green
 - Colour
Lime
 - Colour
Maroon
 - Colour
Red
 - Colour
Turquoise
 - Colour
Purple
 - Colour
Olive
 - Colour
Aqua
 - Colour
Fuchia
 - ColourYellow
                                
R G B</blockquote>
</blockquote>
    Color is based on Red, Green and Blue
thus the 6 fig hexadecimal number is actually 3 pairs of numbers giving
a value for the amount of each colour, where 00 is
0, 80 is 50% and FF is 100%.
  
<table BORDER=0 COLS=16 WIDTH="96%" >
<tr>
<td>
<center>Decimal</center>
</td>

Hence if we change
the blue value only we get variations like these of course thats just the
start theres all the numbers in between too. You may also find variations
from browser to browser which makes no sense but it does happen
                              
R G B
 - Colour
Blue
 - Colour
 - Colour
 - Colour
 - Colour
 - Colour
 - Colour
 - Colour
 - Colour
 -
Colour
                               
R G B
Of course we could add other colours to get different
blues such as these examples
                               
R G B
 - Colour
Aqua
 - Colour
Aquamarine
 - Colour
Cyan
 - Colour
Dark Cyan
 - Colour
Light Blue
 - Colour
Light Cyan
 - Colour
Light Sky Blue
                                
R G B</blockquote>

</body>
</html>

Text is black	(TEXT="#000000")
Back Ground Color is Yellow	(BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC")
Links are Blue - unvisited	(LINK="#0000EE")
Purple - visited	(VLINK="#551A8B")
Red for selected link	(ALINK="#FF0000")