Tutorial: Adding a Background Color

Open the page the background image will be placed.

Open the page

Once the page is open, go to the menu bar and click on Modify. Then click on Page Properties.

Modify and then Page Properties

This is the Page Properties window. On the left side under Category, click on Appearance (CSS).

Page Properties window, Appearance (CSS)

Find the Background color: option. Type in the hexadecimal number of the color or …

Background color

Click on the color picker to pick a color that is already presetted in Dreamweaver.

color picker

Click the Apply button to see how the color works on the page. If the color is what you want then click the OK button.