Lab 2: Color

Using the layout repository

If you followed along with the page on Color and CSS, your page is now using the 500-pixel centered layout from our layout repository.

Apply a color scheme

Use the Color Scheme Generator to find a pleasing set of colors for your page

If you need to, modify the 'local styles' section of your page to look like this:

Apply your color scheme by modifying:

On the color scheme generator, there's a link to create a "URL of this scheme". Click that, and copy the resulting URL. Display the URL for your color scheme at the bottom of your page. (Later, we can make it into a link...)

Hand it in!

Moodle link button"Hand in" the URL to your page (on the GC webserver) on Moodle. Type some text (e.g. "Jill's Color Lab") and make that into a link to your page by using Moodle's link button.

Make sure it's not a dreaded file:/// URL!