HTML Color codes neednt be difficult to understand. In HTML colors are normally referred to in one of two ways - either by name e.g. “White” or by a hexadecimal code eg “#FFFFFF”.
What are Hex Codes?
Hex codes are made up of 3 pairs of alphanumeric characters - these three pairs represent the combination of Red Green Blue used to produce the color.
Colors can be used to great effect with CSS and there are a variety of style attributes that can be used. For example
* Background-color - used by CSS to set a background color of a div
* Color - used to specific the color of text used within a div
Safe HTML colors
In the past where colors displayed by browsers was more of an issue a list of 216 Web Safe Colors was produced as a Web standard. This list included a wide ranging pallette (which can be see at http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp). These days this is less of an issue and sites such as http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html show pallettes of over 1000 colors (as ever thought ensure that you test your pages with different browsers to ensure your site looks as good as you hope!)