There are a lot of colors used throughout the web
256 *Actually there are 216 web-safe colors in a palette, not 256*
There are over 1,000 web-safe colors. Many more are being added frequently. The best way to manage them is with a program such as FrameMaker.
yes you can, try a music web.
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There are several websites and software that teach web design. One highly recommended software that can be found on amazon.com is Professor Teaches How to Create Web Pages & Graphics 5.
On older Macintosh and Windows computers, the graphics hardware of the time was typically limited to 256 colors. Each of the operating systems used several "reserved" system colors, not all of which overlapped. So 40 colors that were or might be used by an operating system were reserved and the rest were free to be used on web pages.
Convert colors to closest possible to display.
That's the standard because that's what will work. One of the first lessons my daughter teaches her students in K-5 art is how these three colors can be mixed to produce any color. No other combination of colors will do this.
According to a user on the American Foundation for the Blind web site, it is difficult to describe different colors as they have no comparisons. And yet I found on another web site someone who had a valid point in comparing colors to every day objects. Blue would be ice, grass for green and so on.
The HTML writers guild is a fantastic website that teaches web design. You are encouraged to join their program and pay a 49 dollar membership fee which gets you discounts on their web design classes. They have a free trial membership.
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