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GoLive: Lesson 3 - Working with Colour, Images and Text

The next step is to create the body and header pages to fill these two frames. Go to File, New and a new window will appear; save this as home.html. Setting background and text colours is more complex than with any other editor: first of all, directly beneath the Layout tab is a page icon, which you must click on to display the Page Inspector. Go to View, Color Palette and from Tab I (for web safe colours, version I), select the background colour #009900 and drag it into the box for Color on the Page Inspector, then select link colour #99FF99.

Next, add the image cross.jpg by dragging the image icon (indicated by the question mark) from the basic objects palette onto the page and navigating to cross.jpg. Beneath this, enter the text History, Places, Where to Stay, Secret Cornwall and Search, hitting tab between each one before highlighting them and assigning relevant links for pages/history.html, pages/places.html, pages/where.html, pages/secret.html and pages/search.html. To do this, type in the URL in the Text Inspector under the Links tab.

Click here to see what the page should look like, then click Back on the browser toolbar to return to this page.

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