TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Article: In the article (A1), the first coating comprises oxides of titanium and silicon. The first coating comprises oxides of titanium, silicon and phosphorus. The first coating comprises oxides of titanium, silicon and aluminum. The first coating comprises silica (30-80 vol.%), phosphorus oxide (1-15 vol.%), and titania (5-69 vol.%). The first coating has a thickness of 30-70 nm. The first coating is a gradient coating. The first coating is a multi-layer coating containing a first layer having phosphorus oxide (5-10 vol.%), silica (70-80 vol.%) and titania (10-25 vol.%) with a thickness of 11-29 nm; a second layer having phosphorus oxide (2 vol.%), silica (48-62 vol.%) and titania (36-50 vol.%) with a thickness 21-33 nm; and a third layer having phosphorus oxide (5-11 vol.%), silica (70-80 vol.%) and titania (9-25 vol.%) with a thickness of 15-23 nm. The photoactive coating comprises titania. The titania coating has a thickness of at least 10 nm. The first coating has a thickness of 10-120 nm. The titania coating comprises at least one dopant selected from Ag+ and Sn+2. Preferred Method: In the method (M1), at least one of the first and second coatings is deposited by chemical vapor deposition. EXAMPLE - An undercoating layer was deposited on a glass substrate by a chemical vapor deposition process using a laboratory coater. A titania coating was then deposited on the undercoating. The undercoating was deposited as a multi-film layer having three undercoating films i.e. a first undercoating film (comprising phosphorus oxide (5 vol.%), silica (75 vol.%) and titania (20 vol.%) over the glass substrate, a second undercoating film (comprising phosphorus oxide (2 vol.%), silica (49 vol.%) and titania (49 vol.%) over the first undercoating film, and a third undercoating film over (comprising phosphorus oxide (5 vol.%), silica (75 vol.%) and titania (20 vol.%) to obtain a coated article (test). Titania coated article with the undercoating layer was used as control. Then both articles were evaluated for color performance. The results for test/control articles were: aasterisk = -6.6/17.17, basterisk = -9.2/-41.4 and Lasterisk = 50.8/42.4, respectively. The results showed that the test coated article exhibited excellent color performance as compared to the control article.