1. Type in a Title for the page. The Title will appear at the top of the Browser window bar. The title is used as the title of a site found in search engines, or marked in bookmarks (favorites) lists.

2. Choose a Preset Color Scheme: Choose Commands > Set Color Scheme to preview color schemes that set up the choices for you. Or Select Your Own as described below.

Color Scheme for a Web Page: Choose colors for a site carefully. If you choose a patterned or textured background for background image, be sure the text of the page is readable over it. If you choose a dark background color, choose light text for legibility. A light background with dark text will be more legible. Also keep in mind that the overall colors of the page should look good together.

Web Safe Colors: 216 colors are considered web safe colors that display the same way in Internet Explorer and Netscape and across Macintosh and PC. Dreamweaver uses 212 of these colors in all the Dreamweaver color palettes to choose backgrounds, text, link, colors.

Background Image: For a patterned background with texture, click the browse button by Background Image and identify a small .gif or .jpg file to tile across the page. The image file should be stored in the web page directory folder or a subdirectory of the web site.

Background: Alternatively, select a solid color background by clicking in the color square from the next to Background label. The color will be translated into a hexadecimal number. (#FFFFFF)

Text and Link Colors: Text is usually black. Individual lines of text color can be changed in the Text > Color menu. Unclicked links are usually blue. Visited or clicked links are usually purple. Active links, the flash color of the link the moment it is clicked is usually red.The web author can designate a different color set by clicking on the color box in the Page Properties or in the Property Inspector and choosing a web safe color.

Margins: A left and top margin can be set for a web page in pixels. Choose View > Rulers > Show and View > Rulers > Pixels determine how much of a left and top margin you desire. In the Page Properties, for cross browser compatibility, you must fill in both left and top margin for Internet Explorer and the same settings for margin height and margin width for the Netscape browser.

3. Accept Page Properties: Click the OK button to accept all choices and close the Page Properties dialog box.