cinnamongirl - 7:18 pm on Jun 25, 2002 (gmt 0)

I am getting ready to design a site for a university academic department. I've been maintaining the old site but this is my first attempt at a design of my own. Of course, the colors I want to use are not on the 256 web safe color palette. In light of the fact that most users who will be accessing this new site will have current computer systems do you think it is safe to use these colors? I recently read that the 256 color palette was designed at a time when most users had 256 color (8 bit) computer systems, which is not the case any more. What advice would you offer?

Thanks!