How to Set Background Colors on a Web Page With Dreamweaver

Background colors can make your text or images on your Web page stand out. Dreamweaver presents a browser-safe palette of colors you can use.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Macromedia Dreamweaver

1. Start the Dreamweaver program and locate the page to be changed.
2. Open the Modify menu and select Page Properties.
3. Click on box next to the word Background. A palette of color choices will appear.
4. Select the color from the palette and click either Apply (to preview the color and leave the palette open to make further changes) or OK.
5. Save the page when finished.

Tips & Warnings

• To use browser-safe colors (the 216 colors that are visible on all browsers and all platforms), make sure the browser-safe colors eyedropper is checked.
• Make sure that the text of your page is visible against the background. Subtle colors are usually thought more professional.
• To use the same background color and other settings on more than one Web page, create a template. See "How to Create a Template for a Web Page With Dreamweaver" in the Related eHows section.
• Some older browsers ignore background color tags, so be sure the text or images are still visible against a white background.