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Color: Dreamweaver 4:
Set a Color Scheme

When designers plan a web site, one of the factors they consider is the color scheme of the site.

Novice designers may be unsure of how to choose compatible colors for their background, text, and links.

Dreamweaver provides a number of designer-approved color schemes that you can automatically assign to your web pages.

To access the color scheme choices in Dreamweaver, select Commands, Set Color Scheme on the main menu bar.

Commands, Set Color Scheme menu

The Set Color SchemeCommand dialog box will appear.

Set Color Scheme dialog box

From this dialog box you can choose a basic background color and then experiment with text and link color choices.

When you have found a color scheme you like, click on Apply to activate the scheme on your web page.

As noted in the credit box at the bottom of this dialog box, these web-compatible color schemes were developed by Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman, two pioneers in the use of color on the Web.

Color: Dreamweaver 4:
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Set a Color Scheme

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