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340 Website Backgrounds

from the selection of backgrounds in the WEBSITE BACKGROUNDS section of the gallery.
You can then customize the textures with your own colors by dragging colors from the
color line onto the background or using a right mouse click on the background to bring
up the "PASTEBOARD BACKGROUND" > "EDIT PASTEBOARD COLOR" menu to display the
color editor.
When you change the color of a background that is composed of a range of colors you
will notice that Web Designer Premium will ask you which color it is you want to change.
These might be named colors - as would be the case if you were working from one of the
ready-made website template themes or colors that you had previously named yourself,
or they might be local colors which would be the case if you were changing your own
choice of color from an earlier selection. See Replacing Colors (on page 189) for more
details.

Note that when you drag one of the stock website backgrounds onto the Pasteboard
Background it replaces all other objects currently on the Pasteboard Background layer
and so in this respect is a destructive operation.

Fixed, non-scrolling backgrounds

Normally if you have a long web page that can be scrolled in the browser, the browser
background scrolls with it, so the page content remains in the same place relative to the
background. But you can ‘fix’ the background so it doesn’t scroll with the page content.
Right-click on the pasteboard and select "PASTEBOARD BACKGROUND" > "FIXED". Then
when you preview, the content slides over the fixed background as you scroll (to see this,
make sure your page is long enough so the browser shows a scroll bar!).

To switch back to the default, scrolling, behavior, select "PASTEBOARD BACKGROUND" >
"SCROLLING".

Using photos as backgrounds

Creating photo backgrounds.

If you want to create your own photo or texture bitmap backgrounds rather than
customize the ready-made backgrounds from the ONLINE CONTENT CATALOG then it's
easy to do.

First, import the photo or texture into your document, just as you would to place it on a
page. Then right click on the photo and choose either SET PAGE AS BACKGROUND or SET
PASTEBOARD AS BACKGROUND, depending on which you want to set.