This specifies the color for hyperlinks during the few moments while the browser is looking for the linked location. The default is red. There are important style and practicality issues involved with choice of background and text colors. Background graphics are often distracting and slow to download, and they make text more difficult to read. This is particularly important if students will be printing from your site.
Web users learn to look for blue when they look for hyperlinks.
Using other colors for links may make it difficult to navigate through your site. Please give us your feedback on how-to materials.