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.
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Instructions
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Start the Dreamweaver program and locate the page to be changed.
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Open the Modify menu and select Page Properties.
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Click on box next to the word Background. A palette of color choices will appear.
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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.
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Save the page when finished.
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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.
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Comments
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That was incredibly easy! Thanks so much! I had learned how to do it in class in such a complicated way, and I never remembered how to do it on my own. This was a breeze!
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boo!
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Virginia DeBolt
Jul 06, 2007
It is also possible to set a background color using a CSS rule like body {background: #somecolor;} -
Virginia DeBolt
Jul 06, 2007
It is also possible to set a background color using a CSS rule like body {background: #somecolor;}
