When you wish to change the colors of the letters here in the forums, you usually pick the 7 colors that are listed here. But if you wish to use other colors, here is a way to use them. when you change the color of a word, it (the code) would look like this...
Code
[color=red]Testing[/color]
which would make your text look like this...
Testing But if you wish to use more colors all you have to know is the hexadecimal colors which would look like this...
Code
[color=99FF33]Testing[/color]
which your text would look like this....
Testing All you have to do is change the words after the equals sign to a hexadecimal color value. You can find color values if you go to google and type in "Hexadecimal color chart" and click on images. Here are just some links to guide you.
http://www.statusme.com/images....art.gif
http://caribbean-joe.net/joe/Notebook/images/hex_colors.jpg
http://geneticvital.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/html_colors.gif