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While editing an HTML page, doing an animation job, or even editing a photo you might encounter some weird color code in the program which looks like #FFFFFF. Instead of trying to understand the code, you would just use it with the help of some web palette or any editing program. However, this code actually gives a lot of ideas how the display of a computer or even the TV works.

The three primary colors are red, blue, and yellow. Remember that from elementary school art? They’re called the primary colors because there are no two “lesser” colors that make them up. Purple is not a primary color because it can be created through combining equal parts of blue and red. In the world of mechanical things that make color, like a television, or a computer screen, color is created through the mixing of three basic colors to make other colors. It’s a process known as “additive color”.

You would think that the TV’s and computer monitors of the world would simply use the three primary colors to start with, but nothing in life can just be that easy. The three colors used to start additive color mixing are red, green, and blue. By starting with one composite color, green, you can still create yellow because it’s included in the green. In addition, now you are actually starting with four colors, red, green, blue, and yellow. The second process of working with colors is “subtractive color.” Subtractive color is the concept of combining colors to make another, like mixing red and blue paint to get purple. That may sounds like additive color, but in reality, colors are made by subtracting a hue out of the color scheme by adding more of another. Adding more white to black makes it more silver subtracting more black as more white is mixed in. If you add all the colors together in a subtractive color method, you get black because you added them all together and all those colors subtracted from all the others leaving no set color: black.

A computer, on the other hand, works with light, not paint or any other goopy stuff. Mix a computer’s additive colors, red, green, and blue, together, you get white. Shine a white light at a prism or a lead crystal glass. You’ll get a rainbow of colors. Actually, that’s how a rainbow is created. White light is being shown through water in the air. That separates the white light into the “rainbow” of colors. You can also try the “Newton Color Cycle”, paint a circle with all the colors of a rainbow light a bulb on it and turn the circle in an adequate speed; you will actually see a white surface.

The hexadecimal code that describes the colors while dealing with computers works with the same principle, the 6 digit “number” represents the hues of three additive colors in two digits, namely red, green and blue. Hexadecimal system has 16 digits starting from 0 till F meaning number 16.

For instance #FFFF00 would represent yellow. Notice the red and the green are at full tilt. There is no blue. By mashing the red and green up against each other, the red cancels out the blue and all that is left is the yellow. It’s actually a subtractive color method being employed in an additive world.

Another example can be DC143C. This code creates a shade of red called “crimson.” The red setting, DC, is pretty intense. There’s not much green. Blue is set a little less than halfway up. As you can see easily hexadecimal code is just about adjusting the right hue. Considering the 3 different colors with, 00 to FF, 256 different hues; we end up with 256-3 different colors which explain our 64 bit representation of colors.

So the next time you’re in need of riveting conversation, you can bring up your new knowledge about Hex codes for colors!

One of the most useful programs that Macromedia offers is Flash. Some people use it to create highly professional animations and some use it for web design. In the area of web design, it is already taking the place of Javascript. While web designers were creating cool drop-down menus with lines and lines of Javascript some years ago, now it is as easy as a click in Flash.

The biggest advantage of Flash is the great user friendly interface that solves the most complicated issues with either using the modules that are included in the package or the simple programming language that it uses. Together with Macromedia Fireworks and Dreamweaver, it takes less than a day for an average coder to create professional looking web pages.

The fact that one can use Flash in many different areas, from creating movies to write action scripts, makes it different from its competitors. You can easily use video files or in-framed animations and also dynamic content to create a Flash web page. All you have to do is to include some “movie clip” objects and connect and control these objects using the scripting function of Flash.

Flash can be used to prepare web pages for various contents. The most common usage is to build pages for multimedia content. Art pages generally consist of Flash animations and photo galleries that are built with Flash. Music pages are generally enveloped in Flash pages. Navigation bars are created with the advance options of dynamic objects in Flash. Basically, Flash is becoming the foundation of dynamic web pages on internet.

Flash not only is used to design pages but can be also used in different platforms. It allows the user to easily develop content for a wide range of platforms including mobile phones and PDAs. Two of the innovative features are the built-in templates for mobile devices and the ability to embed sounds such as MIDI ring tones into the content. You can quickly create custom applications that will work on various mobile platforms because of the ubiquity of the Flash Player.

Overall, if you are looking for a design solution for your web site or PDA, Flash is the right choice with its highly professional but at the same time user-friendly features. It seems that Internet users will be seeing more and more Flash content. Flash brings the colorful breeze that the dynamic web pages are missing and turns the active scripting into an average job for coders.

In our modern, fast-paced environment we have come to expect instant gratification. That also pertains to how we access the internet. For years, the only option was a dialup connection. Believe it or not, there still are places in the United States that do not have access to other alternatives.

If you are fortunate enough to live and work in an area where another alternative is available by all means make the switch. If you need to have a little bit more information before shelling out the extra bucks each month, then let’s take a look at some of the options that may be available in your locale. Before we do that, however, we need to explore the technology a little further and take a look at some terminology.

What is Broadband? Broadband refers collectively to technology that allows data transfer through your phone lines at a much higher rate than standard dialup.

What is DSL (Direct Subscriber Link)? DSL allows you to connect to the internet at the same time you are using your phone without any interruption. It does this by putting digital “bits” that are not heard into the frequency of your phone line.

What is Bandwidth? Bandwidth is the size and speed of the connection. You need the fastest speed and reliability where the connection has a higher priority, i.e. FROM the internet TO your home or office, while a smaller bandwidth is used in the opposite scenario FROM your home or office TO the internet.

The bottom line is that DSL is faster, more efficient and more reliable than standard dialup. If you have ever tried downloading large files on a dialup connection, you know how long it takes. When it comes to listening to music, watching any kind of videos or playing games, it is virtually an exercise in futility on a dialup connection.

DSL is relatively inexpensive for what you get:

You can enjoy streaming live audio and video, watch movies online, listen to radio stations and live news and that’s just for starters! If you like to play computer games, you can do that while online and still not miss any important phone calls!

Downloading data, sound or video files can be accomplished in almost the blink of an eye. What used to take a half hour or more to download will be done in minutes or in some cases even in seconds! And all of those photographs that you’ve taken with your digital camera to send to the grandparents? No need to wait for developing. In seconds you can send the photos!

If you are lucky enough to live in an area where DSL is available, by all means jump on the bandwagon and bring your surfing experience into the 21st century!