Operation Manual

Colour, Fills, and Transparency 217
• The Background colour (labelled B) applies to the off-page background
outside your Web page dimensions if the user resizes the browser's
window to be larger than the Web page dimensions. This can be either a
solid colour or picture. :
• The On-page colour (labelled O), is used to fill the page's background. If
you make this transparent, the currently set underlying background
shows, making the page boundaries invisible (content is still constrained
to page dimensions). :
• If you use a picture background with transparent regions, the
Background colour is still active and will show through; otherwise the
picture will cover the background colour.
The adjunct colours defined in the Scheme Manager normally apply
throughout the site, with several important exceptions:
• Individual hyperlinks can specify their own colour. In the Hyperlinks
dialog, uncheck Use scheme hyperlink colours. This will allow the
underlying object's colour to show through on both the original and
Followed hyperlink.
• Using the Master Page Manager (Background tab), you can override the
Scheme Manager's background colour/picture and on-page colour
settings for a particular master page, which affects all pages that share
that master page. Pages that don't use a master page default to the
Scheme Manager setting, but you can also override this via the Page
Properties dialog (Background tab) in a similar way. In both cases,
uncheck Use Scheme Manager settings and set the options Background
colour, Use picture, and/or On-page colour independently.
Applying scheme colours to objects
If you create new elements in a Web template site, or start a site from scratch,
how can you extend a colour scheme to the new objects? Although you'll need
to spend some time working out which colour combinations look best, the
mechanics of the process are simple. Recalling the paint-by-numbers example
above, all you need to do is assign one of the five scheme colour numbers to
an object's line and/or fill.