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Tutorial: Modifying with Dreamweaver

On this page, you will learn how to set background color, text color, and link colors for your entire page. You will also add some more text to your page.

Open the Page Properties window
Page Properties
Page Properties
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The Page Properties window is the primary method by which you can change document-wide properties for your web page. To open the Page Properties window:

Modify Menu Page

This window allows you to alter many of the properties that effect your entire web page.

Set Background Color
The background color is important for your page. Setting it using the Page Properties window is pretty easy. Just find the Background box (below) and do one of the following:

Background Color

  1. Type the color you would like to use in the text box

  2. Click on the color swatch to the left of the text box and choose from the colors offered.
    (We chose #CCCC66 for our Background color.)

Set text and link colors
After you've set your background color, you should set text and link colors that strongly contrast your background color. You can set your text color and link colors in the same way that you set your background colors: by finding the appropriate sections for those properties (below) and setting them. But what do these settings do?

Text and Link color choices

  • Text color defines the default display color for text in your document.
    (We chose #000000 for our Text color.)

  • Link color defines the color of un-visted links on your user's browser.
    (We chose #663399 for our Link color.)

  • Visited Link color defines the color of links to pages your visitor has already seen.
    (We chose #660066 for our Visited Link color.)

  • Active Link color defines the color of the link over which the mouse is hovering (only available on Internet Explorer).
    (We chose #660066 for our Active Link color.)

On the next page, you will learn how to add an image to your document.

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