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HTML and XHTML Step by Step
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HTML and XHTML Step by Step

by Faithe Wempen
February 2006
Beginner
416 pages
11h 35m
English
Microsoft Press
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Choosing Background and Foreground Colors

Many Web design experts caution against dark or patterned backgrounds on Web pages, because they can make it difficult to read the text. Some designers go so far as to say that you should not use any background color at all, and prefer that black text on a white background be the norm. A quick look at a few major commercial Web sites will confirm the near-universality of this opinion. Check out high-traffic sites like www.msn.com, www.ibm.com, and www.microsoft.com, and you’ll find that the body text is almost exclusively black (or another dark color) on a white (or other pale) background.

Rules are made to be broken, however, and you might find situations in which a colored or patterned background is perfect ...

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