Hexadecimals
Hexidecimals are a useful tool for web building, allowing you to chose unique text colors, background colors, etc. In basic HTML, you will notice that in, font for example, you use this code to assign color value: Font="<font color="color">" There are 16 basic color names you can choose from: Aqua, Gray, Navy, Silver, Black, Green, Olive, Teal, Blue, Lime, Purple, White, Fuchsia, Maroon, Red, and Yellow. Some browsers support an extended color list, with colors such as Indigo, Orange, Darkgoldenrod, Salmon, and others. Hexidecimals allows you to use a wide range of colors and shades using hexidecimals.
Here's how to calculate a hexadecimal if you are interested. In most paint programs, they have a custom color picker, usually a wheel or bar with the different shades. When you select a color, there are three boxes with numbers in them, labeled Red, Green, and Blue. Some programs, like Photoshop, has a box that figures out the hexidecimal for you. Others just give you numbers for Red, Green and blue, or RGB. In hexadecimals, there is a 6 digit code, and the first two represent Red, the next two the Green number, etc. You would take that number one at a time, and divide it by 16. Say in the Red box we get "64" We divide it by 16 and get "4" That number goes first. It divided evenly, so the next number is a 0. If you divide a number and it is more than 9, you don't put "10", since Red only gets 2 numbers or letters in the code and you still need to put in the remainders. A=10, B=11 etc until F="15". So "193" is "12" with a remainder of one. You put the Red-Green-Blue in that order. Font="<font color="000000">" Don't forget your closing tags! (</font>)
Hexadecimal List
