Colors
How to display colors in HTML from the W3 Consortium HTML tutorials.
Guide to Using Colors in HTML - This page from the University of Texas shows color swatches for the various hex coded HTML colors.
216 Web Safe Colors - This color swatch page has two special qualities; it only shows the 216 "browser safe" colors, and you can switch from displaying the HTML code for a color you click on to the "decimal" or RGB notation for a clicked on color.
Background Images
How to handle a background image and/or background color from the W3 Consortium HTML tutorials.
Local background images - These are small images on the Humnet server for use as "tiled" backgrounds. You can either download it or copy its URL into the BACKGROUND attribute of the BODY tag.
Free background and wallpaper images - listing from the Yahoo.
Last updated August 10, 2006 by mg