2. How do I set up the basic colors for text and links in my e-mail or web page?

Web pages and E-mail are slightly different in that you can change the link colors in both with the exception of the "embedded" links in e-mail by Webtv. These "embedded" links are your return e-mail address, and the "included page" link when you send a web page to someone. The link color of these items cannot be changed.

To change the color of text and links, your code would look like this:

<<>html>
<<>body bgcolor="black" text="white" link="red">
<<>/body><<>/html>

You can also specify the color of the "vlink" or "visited link", the color the link becomes after you've been there. To do this, your code would look like this:

<<>html>
<<>body bgcolor="black" text="white" link="red" vlink="blue">
<<>/body><<>/html>

While these colors are all "recognized" by most browsers, it is recommended to use hex color codes when typing your html code.

In this example, the hex code for black is "000000", white is "FFFFFF", red is "FF0000" and blue is "0000FF". To learn more about hex color codes, click here.

To learn more about changing the background of your e-mail or web page, click here.