In the world of printing, there are endless arrays and shades of colors available to graphic designers. Unfortunately, and unbeknownst to many in web design, that is not truly the case when it comes to the web. While all of the colors of the rainbow can be used in a web design there are no guarantees that those colors will appear as the web designer wished if the colors aren’t considered to be a part of what are known as “browser safe colors.”

The browser safe colors have been known by a variety of different names over the years but some of the more popular are the color cube, the 6x6x6 cube or even the Netscape palette (which should give you an idea of how old this concept really is). The 216 colors that make of the color cube were established during a time when many computers on the web could only handle 8-bit color displays. This limited the palette to only 256 different colors, which is why the list of browser safe colors was established to insure backwards compatibility with older displays.

Browser safe colors are sometimes referred to as the 6x6x6 cube because the 216 colors that are considered safe are made up of 6 different shades of red, green and blue. There’s some mildly intense mathematics behind all of this that only a computer scientist could probably love. For anyone familiar with RGB or Hexadecimal settings in relation to color selection you will notice that all of the colors called browser safe contain combinations of 0, 51, 102, 153, 204 or 255 in RGB and 00, 33, 66, 99, cc or FF in Hexadecimal.

As time moves on, the important of browser safe colors becomes less and less significant in the grand scheme of things. In more modern times, it is very difficult to run across many displays that don’t have support for more than 256 colors. The only possible exception to that rule would be some brands of handheld and mobile devices but even that is changing rapidly.

It is still important to make your web design efforts as accessible as possible to as many people and devices as you can. Using colors that are considered browser safe is simply one way to help make that possible. It is at the web designer’s discretion if he wants to limit himself to the 216 colors defined as safe by Netscape years ago. If not for the concerns over accessibility, at least as an interesting exercise or challenge in web design. Sometimes limiting your choices makes it easier to come up with a great color scheme and design.

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Selecting a web host is an important decision that is not easy to take. It’s surprising to see that although the decision is so crucial but still many online businesses often overlook this or don’t even take it into consideration. In web hosting the operating system used also pays a very significant role on web servers. Nowadays there are basically two systems being used either Linux or Windows. Read the rest of this entry »

With the creation of more and more websites ready to be uploaded on the Internet, the need for more web hosting service providers cropped up. Initially the price associated with web hosting was sky high however, with time and competition the prices fell significantly. The price war has been a reason as to why so many companies have dropped their prices on web hosting. You would be amazed to see some of the prices on web hosting being offered drastically low.

The disadvantage with the recent price war is that it has been hard to determine which service provider offers reliable services and which not. It is not always true that the most expensive web host may also offer you the best services.

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One critical decision that many online businesses have to take is to choose a web hosting service that they can depend upon. With a reliable web hosting provider, many companies do not have to face many problems, however with a poor web hosting service provider maintaining a website can be an absolute nightmare.

Selecting an excellent web hosting service provider could even mean spending a considerable amount of money. This could also depend upon the kind of platform the web hosting service is being provided on. In case if it is Windows then the costs involved could be slightly higher as compared to UNIX or Linux. However, it really depends upon what kind of features are you looking out for while hosting your website on the Internet along with certain other parameters as listed below:

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If you surf the Internet you will find a wide range of Web Hosting Providers each offering phenomenal features and priced conveniently so as to fit anyone’s budget. With each touting why their services are the best and most reliable, it becomes quite difficult to understand which Web Hosting Provider to go for. Some say Linux is better than Windows while others predict that Windows offers much more user-friendly functionality as compare to Linux. It becomes a tedious task for you to choose a platform that would be most beneficial for your website.

No matter what people say, there is no direct answer to which platform to choose for web hosting purposes. All platforms have their own merits and demerits, so the trick of the book is to figure out which platform is best for your website keeping in mind your own personal and business needs and the budget you have.

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