Operation Manual
Working with Text 29
Changing the ‘Web colors’
When you stepped through the Wizard to create the sample site we’ve
been working with, you chose one of several alternate color schemes.
In the previous chapter, we used a paint-by-numbers analogy to explain
about the five numbers you can use to mark elements in WebPlus, and
how each scheme includes five colors, which get applied to elements
with the corresponding number.
By convention, body text in Web Wizard publications is marked with
“Scheme Color 1.” That means it takes on whichever color has been
defined as Scheme Color 1 in the current scheme (the first of the five
colors shown at the top of the sample). In addition, each publication’s
color scheme also includes these special Web color settings:
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The Hyperlink color applies to hyperlinked text before it’s been
clicked on, while the same text after a Web visitor has clicked to
“follow” the link takes on the Followed Hyperlink color. (The
WebPlus sample displays these colors, but you’ll need to view the
published site in a browser to preview the actual effect.)
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A Web site’s Background, which is applied to every page, can be
either a solid color or a tiled (repeated) picture, usually a bitmap
pattern. The tiled picture option works just like desktop
“wallpaper”—so a small bitmap can go a long way. The color
scheme sample shows
if the scheme uses a tiled bitmap.
You can modify the basic colors
(and Web colors) in a scheme, or
set a different background bitmap,
using the Scheme Manager, in the
same way that you’d modify the
scheme’s five basic colors. To
display it, right-click the scheme
name (or click the Tools menu)
and choose 6FKHPH0DQDJHU.