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Standard Colors. Custom Colors Adding Custom Colors Color Tips

The Color Palette

Color Tips If you plan on using more than one custom color, then add the first custom color many times to the Custom colors palette. If you add the first custom color only once, and close the color palette, the next time you add a custom color it will overwrite the first custom color.  You can retrieve that first custom color by re-selecting the text or

colored box where you used it and re-adding it to the color palette, but why do all that extra work.  If you have added first custom color to the palette many times you will still have a saved custom color even after adding other custom colors to the palette. When you are finished working on your webpage and you have closed the Cool Page program, the custom colors you have added to the palette will not be saved anymore. If you want to add another page to your website at a later date, using the same custom colors as other pages on your site, simply open one of your other pages in Cool Page, select the text or colored box that has a custom color and add that color to the palette.  Close the page.  CoolPage will ask if you would like to save the changes you made.  Choose "no" and proceed working on your new webpage. If you have many webpages using many different custom colors, create a new page in Cool Page and call it "CustomColors".  Draw colored boxes using all of your custom colors and save the page.  You willl now have a page you can use anytime to re-add a custom color to the palette.  Just open the page, add a custom color, close the page and don't save the changes to it.

CPH :  Guides :  Colors :  The Color Palette

Standard Colors This guide will show you how to use all of the colors in the Windows color palette more efficiently. You don't have to be limited to the 48 standard choices as seen below:

To change the color of text or a colored box, simply select the text or colored box and click on the Selected Item Color tool (above) on the Text Toolbar. The Color Palette will then be displayed as seen on the right. Select the color you want and click the "OK" button.

Custom Colors To use a custom color, select the text or colored box, click on the Selected Item Color tool, click on a basic color in the palette, then click on the  Define Custom Colors button. The color palette will expand giving you more color options. In this part of the palette you can type in the color values or simply drag the slider up and down, which will automatically set the color values.

Adding Custom Colors Once a custom color is selected, it can be added to the saved Custom colors section of the palette by clicking on the Add to Custom Colors button.  The custom color will remain saved until you close the Cool Page program.