You may see colors set like this:

background-color: BLUE;

or you may see them set like this:

background-color: #0000FF;

There are two different ways to specify a color in your palette.

You can use standard color names like RED, BLUE, GREEN, YELLOW, DARKGREEN, etc. Most common colors should work. If you are not sure, try one out and see what happens.

For more advanced colors or shades, you need to use the second format.

The easiest way to do this is to go to a site like this:

HTML Color Selector

Just hover over the color you want and copy down the "#" code in the box at the bottom. It is ok to use upper or lowercase letters when you set the color... they both work. Don't forget to put the ; at the end when entering it in your palette.

To make your first change, try going to the Palette Editor and Editing your work palette. Find the line near the top that says:

background-color: WHITE;

and change it to:

background-color: #CCFFCC;

Which is a light blue-green color that I got from that color selector website above.

Save your changes and then "View Work Palette". The background of your blog page should now be light blue-green!

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While not necessary if you use the above link, If you want to understand what these numbers mean, read on...

It may look complicated at first but it is really not.

Advanced colors are like this:

#(RED)(GREEN)(BLUE);

Where you specify the amount of red, green and blue in the color -- just like you did in grade school. Each one is a "hexidecimal" number that ranges from 00 to FF. FF is the biggest hexidecimal number and 00 is the smallest.

Remember Yellow and Blue make Green? Well you can't specify Yellow here -- but Red and Green make Yellow.

You can specify the color yellow by saying YELLOW or #FFFF00;

Here are some more examples:

RED = #FF0000;
GREEN = #00FF00;
BLUE = #0000FF;
BLACK = #000000;
WHITE = #FFFFFF;

DARKRED = #770000;