There are several parameters which you can give to the body tag to change the look of your page. Specify a background color for your page. Specify a background image for your page. Specify the link color for your page. Specify the active link color for your page.
Colors There are many ways to define colors.
This a link to a RGB Color Chart which will give you many, many hexidecimal codes for colors on web pages. It can range from -x to x. Some common ones include Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Courier, Times New Roman . Most computers share some common basic fonts. However if you use a font like Funky that you downloaded just for yourself, chances are not everyone will have it.