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Subject: Website question
Category: Arts and Entertainment
Asked by: shoaib-ga
List Price: $2.00

Posted: 02 Jan 2003 06:41 PST
Expires: 01 Feb 2003 06:41 PST
Question ID: 136387

If a black screen appears in a website, what does it means?
Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 02 Jan 2003 06:50 PST Could you provide a link to this particular website so we could check it out?
Clarification of Question by shoaib-ga on 02 Jan 2003 07:29 PST Hello Easterangel-ga and please note the following websites in which a black screen appears: www.entertainment-world.tv and www.missworld.org
Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 02 Jan 2003 08:00 PST Was your question answered in the comments section? If it wasn't then you could tell us a little bit more about your requirements. Thanks.

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Subject: Re: Website question
Answered By: tlspiegel-ga on 02 Jan 2003 12:05 PST

Hi Shoaib,

Basically when a website is designed by someone it's a personal
preference for colors of the background, text, borders, etc.  If they
have designed the site with a black background, that's what you will
see when you - the visitor - go to the site online.  If they've
designed the site with a red background, the same applies.  White,
blue, green etc.  It has no meaning.  Other than the creator of the
website likes that color for background.  Same as some sites have a
multi-colored, patterns, or images bouncing around all over the
background.

Some sites have background music playing.  It's all a matter of what
people think is "cool" and will attract visitors.

Some people prefer white backgrounds for a business site because it
makes for easiest viewing by their visitors.

I hope this helps!

tlspiegel
Google Answers Researcher

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Subject: Re: Website question
From: johnworf-ga on 02 Jan 2003 07:50 PST

Hi,

This is a very simple question to answer - basically the backround is
set to black in the HTML

This is the line of code that does it - to see it - go to view source:

<body bgcolor="#000000">

the 6 digits is hexadecimal notation - this can produce the 16 million
colours.

The first two digits is the amount of red the second the amount of
green and the third set the amount of blue - in this case we don't
have any of red/green/blue therefore the result is black. If we have
the full amount of each colour which would be <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
in hexadecimal notation we would get white. If we were to leave this
out of the body altogether you would still get white(most of the time)
as most browsers default setting is white. Hope that has fully
answered your question.

How do i get my $2 is my question or don't i?

Subject: Re: Website question
From: loure-ga on 06 Jan 2003 15:23 PST

johnworf,
You don't get the $2.  You have to be a "Researcher" for which,
unfortunately, they are not currently accepting applications.
Read this:
http://answers.google.com/answers/faq.html#aboutres

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