To give your page a back ground color, do the following:
In the BODY tag, without closing it, type the following:
bgcolor="color of your choice"
Of course "color of your choice" can be replaced by
the color of your choice.
Like this:
<BODY bgcolor="color of your choice">
Go ahead and place the name of your favorite color inside the quotation
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Supposing your favorite color is yellow(mine is!).
Type this in:
<BODY bgcolor="yellow">
To see this example work, click here.
You will see a page with yellow background.