Saving in the right format! When you create an image based on the Web colours, save it in the GIF format as the JPEG format does not guaranty the resulting
colours. Besides, the GIF format enables you to obtain a smaller file if an image includes continuous tones.
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Design : The Web colour palette
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Daniel Garrance
Calling On the Web Palette
Most of Web authoring software and HTML editors (such as Dreamweaver, FrontPage, etc.), or image-editing software (such as Fireworks, Flash, ImageReady, Photoshop, etc.) include tools which make the use of the Web colours easier.
Thus, ImageReady provides a palette that includes colours from the Web palette only, and Fireworks has a Web palette option that can be selected from the palette menu.
Figure 2: Most HTML editors and graphic tools include the Web palette.
Saving in the right format! When you create an image based on the Web colours, save it in the GIF format as the JPEG format does not guaranty the resulting
colours. Besides, the GIF format enables you to obtain a smaller file if an image includes continuous tones.
In Dreamweaver, the Web palette is also displayed up when selecting the page text or background colour.
Figure 3:Dreamweaver provides the Web colours by default.
If you prefer direct HTML coding, you need to know the respective hexadecimal values of the Web colours. As they are made up each of six digits, keep the following rule in mind: The Web colours are always made up of three pairs of identical digits, all digits being multiples of 3, (that is 0, 3, 6, 9, C, F).
Thus, #33FFCC is a Web colour whereas #33F690 is not.