The main thing to remember is that you want to have a lot of contrast between your background color and text, so that the text is legible. Some Things To Experiment With Now that you understand how to create hexcodes and add backgrounds, try experimenting with different color combinations. Try creating a page that uses only shades of a single color, like blue. Try creating a holiday page using hexcode colors. Warm colors are reds, browns, oranges, and yellows.
Cool colors are blues, grays, purples, and greens.
Make sure the BODY tag comes after the closing HEAD tag in your HTML file. Make sure you've saved your HTML file in the correct format. Although Microsoft Interent Explorer does support BMP format graphics, Netscape does not. Missing just one quotation can prevent part of the page from loading. If your HTML is correct, and your graphic is uploaded, but you still can't see the background image, try opening the graphic in a paint program like Paint Shop Pro, and make sure the file will open and is visible.