First off apologies for such a basic question, but I’ve searched high and low and can’t find an answer!
This is what I want to do:
Have the ‘page’ background of my website one colour (white in this case), and the browser background another colour (light blue).
Using the page inspector I can set the background colour but it sets everything that colour - page and browser!
What do you mean “Page” background and “Browser” background? A Page background is the same as the Browser background. If you mean that you want a say “black” background with a “container” box that has a white background then you’d have to set the Page background to Black and then create either an HTML item or table item and give that a background color of white.
Unless you’re trying to do something else Page and Browser background’s are the same.
If you check out http://www.palm.com/us/ this is an example of what I’m after. The page is white and a fixed size where you place your content. The browser background is grey a resizes according to how big the browser window is.
iWeb for example has a page colour and browser colour settings. I realise I could create a graphic item or html item a colour that but if I resize the page I would have to resize this item too.
If you check out http://www.palm.com/us/ this is an example of what
I’m after. The page is white and a fixed size where you place your
content. The browser background is grey a resizes according to how
big the browser window is.
You can set browser background colour in the Inspector, while you have
nothing on the page selected. Page colour can be anything you like,
also set with the Inspector, in the same place, with the page
container selected.
That’s what you’d have to do. You’d have to set the “browser” background in your Inspector palette and then draw out an HTML item or tabled item as the “white” part of the site and make that white.
If you built the site like a box model you’d achieve the flexibility that is on the Palm site.