A light background with dark text will be easier to read. Bear in mind that the overall colors of the page should give the viewer a pleasant look. 216 colors are considered web safe colors that display the same way in Internet Explorer and Netscape. Dreamweaver uses 212 of these colors in all the Dreamweaver color palettes to choose backgrounds, text, link, colors. The color will be translated into a hexadecimal number.
Text is usually black.
Traditionally u nclicked links are blue . Visited or clicked links are purple. Active links, the flash color of the link the moment it is clicked is usually red .You can select a preferred color set by clicking on the color box in the Page Properties or in the Property Inspector and choosing a color. If it is the first time you save the document, you will be prompted for a file name and location to save in.