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162 Journalism Online
Save it as HTML7.htm and view the result.
(UK readers should note the spelling of ‘center’ in the
HTML.)
Try re-sizing the browser window. The relative position stays
the same and the alignment does not change, but the effect of the
alignment, especially on the right, is lost as the window gets
smaller.
Exercise 8 – colour on the page
Using colour is a good way to communicate a message. For many,
black is serious, blue is cold, and red and oranges are warm
colours. You can use HTML to add different colours to your
page.
Load up HTML6.htm and amend the tag so it looks like
the following.
Save it as HTML8.htm and view the result.
You can see that a bright red background has appeared. Red is
one of a small set of colours which can be described in HTML by
their names, rather than a code. The others are black, gray, silver,
white, maroon, yellow, olive, pink, green, lime, aqua, teal, navy,
blue, purple, fuchsia and orange. All other shades of colour are
described by a series of numbers and letters decided by
something called the hexadecimal method.
If you change the background colour, you must make sure it
does not make the text impossible to read. The colour of the font
is as important as the background colour and is a key consideration
in your design. In general, a lighter background colour with
a darker font colour works best.
Exercise 9 – the missing link
There’s been much talk in this book on the ability of HTML to link
you from one document to another. But how do you write that
instruction into a page?