Working with color

Freeway handles the colors of text, graphics, and other objects in your site in a consistent way using the Styles and Colors palette .

Freeway maintains a list of all the colors used in your document, and you can give these convenient names, or define your own permanent library of colors, to ensure consistency across your Web pages.

To apply a document color

The available options will depend on what you have selected, as shown in the following table:

Selected What you can change
Nothing Page background color.
HTML item Background or border color.
Table Background or border color.
Graphic item Shadow, glow, background, foreground, or border color.
Text in an HTML item Text or text background color.
Text in a graphic item Text, text background, text shadow, text glow, or text outline color.

To apply a Web-safe color to an object

This is a set of 216 colors recommended for use on the Web, as they are supported in a consistent way on most computers.

The options will depend on what you have selected.

The new color will be added to the end of the document colors list, with a name such as Color 1:

To apply an arbitrary color to an object

The Color Picker provides five alternative ways of choosing colors.

To add a color to the document colors list

The Color dialog box allows you to define the new color and give it a name:

To edit the document colors

The Edit Colors dialog box shows a list of all the colors in your document and allows you to add new colors, import colors from another document, or edit the colors:

Built-in colors are identified by a padlock icon in the left column; you cannot edit or delete these.

Colors shown in bold are permanent. They will remain in the document colors list even if they are not used in the site.

To edit a user-defined color

To delete a user-defined color

If the color is in use in your site you will be prompted to select a color to replace it.

To create a new color

To import the permanent colors from another document


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