To set the color of the LivingLinks applet background, you can specify a basic color (red, green, blue, black, white, etc.) as follows:
<PARAM NAME=backgroundColor VALUE="white">
However, when you want to use a color that isn't one a basic one, such as the light shade of yellow used in this page, you can supply an exact hexadecimal value instead. In this example, we want the background color of the Web page to "show through" the transparent parts of the animation. And so, the hexadecimal value used to set the Web page background (set with the body bgcolor line at the top of the page -- view the HTML source to see for yourself) is supplied as the value for the "backgroundColor" parameter:
<PARAM NAME=backgroundColor VALUE="FFFFD7">