Click on your color choice to change the background color. Change the text color. There are important style and usability issues involved in choosing background and text colors. Background graphics are very 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.