Changing a page background

[lylacinc]

Is there a movie tutorial showing how to do this? I'm relatively new to this and just not following what has been written. Thanks.

[Theo]

Is there a movie tutorial showing how to do this? I'm relatively new to this and just not following what has been written. Thanks.

Hi

I have not see a movie but I have included all of the steps in what I have just been doing with my own site.

I wanted a graduated background on all of my pages. This was a late decision or I would have duplicated it as I added pages. I had already been given the idea of creating a tall thin bitmap and using the "set as page background" on the bitmap in the bitmap gallery. This had achieved the effect that I wanted.

My requirements changed. In the village web site that I was producing (www.sproxton.org.uk Following this link will bring up the alod site designed with easywebeditor until I have finished the upgrade and uploaded it) I wanted to be able to change the colour scheme according to the season of the year. This meant changing the background colour too.

Here is what I did using Designer MX Premium.

1. Open the Page & Layer Gallery and select any page.
2. Click the little triangle to the left of the page to open the layer display.
3. Hide all the layers except the Page background layer.
4. Unlock this layer by clicking on the little red padlock (The Pagebackground layer defaults to 'locked')
5. Now select the rectangle which makes up the Page background go to the fill tool and apply whatever fit you want giving system colours to the fill. In my case I had dedicated two system (named) colours to the graduated fill and called them 'Background' light and 'Background dark'
6. When you are satisfied select the background and 'Repeat on all pages'.
7. Lock the background again by clicking on the little padlock and reset the visiblity of the other layers to whatever is appropriate. This will change the background of all the pages and leave them all locked.
8. All will appear to be well at this point and the background will show fine in WD MX Premium. However, when you preview the page the background will not show. In order to make everything work you need to set a pasteboard colour for each page. This is a bit repetative but is speedily done by dragging the colour of your choice from the colour bar to the pasteboard.

Now you can edit the named colours to change the appearance of the whole site.

Good. Innit!

HTH

Nick