Colors

PageMill 2.0 offers greatly enhanced color control. When you enter text in a page, it appears as black. By default, links appear as blue. You can change the color of all unlinked text, of selected text, and the color of links, active links, and links that have been clicked (if the link is an image, the border color changes). The color of backgrounds can also be changed.

PageMill 2.0 also adds the color panel, allowing easy access to commonly used colors. The Color Panel is a floating palette that contains sixteen color swatches. You use these swatches to change text, link, and page background colors. You can customize the Color Panel by double-clicking a color swatch and choosing a new color from the color picker. The customized panel is saved when you save a page and is then available for all your pages.

To change the default color of text, click the Text Color button in the button bar and choose Custom from the pop-up menu, then Set a new color in the Windows color picker.

If you want to change the color of selected text, select the text before clicking the Text Color button. Alternatively, you can select text, and then drag any color in the Color Picker on to your selected text.

You can also drag colors from the color panel on top of any of the color pop-up menus in the Inspector.

To change the color of text and links:

• Open the Inspector.
• Click the Page tab.
• Choose Custom from any of the Colors pop-up menus, depending on which characteristic you want to modify:
• Text specifies the color of normal, unlinked text.
• Normal Links specifies the color of a link that the reader has not yet seen.
• Active Links specifies the color of a link as the reader clicks it. (Active link colors will not be previewed in PageMill)
• Visited Links specifies the color of links that the reader has recently seen.

Changing the Page Background Color

In addition to using an image for a page background, you can also set the background color.

To change the page background color using the Attributes Inspector:

• Open the Inspector
• Click the Page tab.
• Choose Custom from the Background pop-up menu.

To change the page background color using the Color Panel:

• To display the Color Panel, choose View>Show Color Panel.
• Drag a color over the page icon (just to the left of the page Title).
• You can also change the page background color by dragging a color from the Color Panel and dropping it over the Background pop-up menu in the Page section of the Inspector. When you release the mouse button, the new color appears as the selected color in the menu.

Making standard colors
PageMill 2.0 provides a standard color palette which stores colors for the entire application. To set your own colors, either double-click on one of the color wells to get the Color Chooser, or you can drag colored text (say, from some other HTML file) onto the color well to set it.