If you wish another background color instead of the default grey on your home page, you can change the tag. Place this Tag near the beginning of your file, before the text. Include only one bodycolor tag on a page.
More colors are possible by determining the hexidecimal equivlant to the new color.
These are available on the WWW by searching for colors, hexidecimal, or similar. There are no colors here, just names of colors, but it is helpful to see how the hexadecimals change with the names. Click on Color Code Index to see what a bgcolor looks like based on its hexadecimal code. The two Browser-Safe complete color charts which follow are from this site. NOW go to Color Perceptions and the Mind to see how colors are also affected by the context, relative lightness, and color relationships.