The Hex code colors website that Jeri mentioned on 23 Aug 05 - 10:09 PM came in real handy today. I saw this thread on November 12, and I wrote down and saved her blue clicky.

Today, as is one of my duties, I was editing my Reform Jewish Regional Office's (in Washington DC) website. Our organization's North American Headquarters in New York City has given us an easy-to-use website editor package, but they have also imposed some pretty restrictive "style" rules.

We my use ONLY Arial, for example, no graphics in the background, and a 180-color pallette selection box for type or background colors. We aren't really supposed to use any color backgrounds.

But in the announcement I was making for one of the upcoming classes we administer, I really wanted something to set off the text. It's a marriage-preparation class (you can quitcher giggling, now) and our "signature" color for the class's flyers, etc. is pink.

Pink's not even remotely one of the colors in our official pallette, but in the editor's dialog box, as well as a place to select a preset color, there's also a place to type. Aha!, I thought. I went to the website Jeri gave, found pink was FFC0CB, typed it in the box, and, voila...an appropriately sappy shade of pink appeared behind my text. We can edit our site's html, but I wouldn't have known how to figure it out.

No doubt our web-police will find my color one of these days and delete it, but meantime, it's fun to have up there.

THANKS MUDCAT! (& Jeri)

--Linda Goodman