Coloring rows in tables

For a while I was looking for a solution on how effectively make colors in a table.
Here is a good description:

http://texblog.org/2011/04/19/highlight-table-rowscolumns-with-color/

How to change background color of enumeration

See the answer here:
http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=13447&p=50828