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There are 216 “legal” web colours. I personally find them very restricting: the nearest web colour to the shade I want is always miles out and I feel much as I would if expected to decorate a room with fabrics, wallpaper, paint, furniture and carpet that don’t quite go with each other. However, since web designers are supposed to stick to them (after all, not everyone has a monitor displaying millions, or even thousands, of colours *) the codes for the 216 colours are as follows:

Information gathered from visitors to my web site indicates that nearly 11% of surfers have only 256 colours on their computers.

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More information on colours, as well as tools to help you choose them, can be found at Yahoo.

By the way, I created the above table in one of those programs that write the HTML code for you (simply because it had a colour-picker and Simpletext, my text-editing program, doesn’t) and I landed up with a file that was exactly twice as big as it should have been. I had to edit it severely so that it wouldn’t take you twice as long as it should (and cost you twice as much) to download on your browser. Quite apart from this, the file would take up twice as much room on my web site—room I could well need for another file. In my book these are all good reasons for home page owners to write their own HTML!

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