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Open Blender and start a new scene (CTRL+X to get rid of any older). You should get the default cube of any new Blender scene. Get into perspective view, from the camera (Num 0).

With the cube being selected, enter in Edit mode (TAB Key) and activate the Face Select mode.

Black dots appear in the center of each face. Click on the center of the face that is facing you in order to select it (Right Mouse Button).

In the Editing menu (F9 key), press the New button in the Link and Materials tab.

Material should increase from 1 Mat: 1 to 2 Mat:2. Using the small arrows pointing toward the left or the right, on each side of this field, you can toggle from a material index to another. Come back to 2 Mat:2. By clicking on the Assign button, you will give at the selected face the material bearing the index 2 Mat: 2, while all the other faces will keep the 2 Mat: 1 index. Do it.

In the Shading menu (F5 key), search in the Material tab the button which reads 2 Mat: 1. Change the Col of the Material in order to give it a green hue.

Now click on the right arrow so that the button now reads 2 Mat: 2. Now, it is this second material index which is available for edition.

Let's give to this index a new material by clicking on the lifts on the left of the MA:Material button and choose ADD NEW. The material now has become MA:Material.001. Change its color Col of the material.

Leave the Edit mode (TAB key) and enter the shaded mode view (Z key). Here's our old mesh, with new colors!

Article written on December the 21st, 2004.
Updated on November the 11th, 2008 for Blender 2.48a. Comments re-initialized