If you have chosen a fairly light colour for your +Page+ background, then large black letters will show up well. However, if your background is a dark blue or a dark red, then you will hardly be able to see the +Text+. You can improve visibility by one of two ways:

1. You can choose to make the lettering white (or any other contrasting colour) when you choose the font, the size and other parameters

2. You can, when choosing the font, size and other parameters, choose to make the background a different colour. In the Parameter Panel, below the button allowing you to choose the colour of the font, is a large button labelled {Background} with a little tick box to the right. Select the tick box, the tick disappears, and then you select the {Background} button to choose a background colour.

When you have finished, you will be able to move from child +Page+ to child +Page+, with each child +Page+ in a different colour and a different heading. You can then repeat the exercise, should you want to do so, for all the grandchild +Pages+ and even the great-grandchild +Pages+.

One interesting possibility is to make each child +Page+ exactly the same colour as the index +Page+. You do this by selecting a child +Page+ (thus making it active) and then selecting the {Image} tab, the {From colour} button, the {Main colour} button and then select the white pane with "Click here and hold down your mouse button to grab a colour on the screen", hold the mouse button down and move the cursor to the index page area; when the cursor hovers over the right area, you let go of the left hand mouse button. Select ({Apply} and then {OK} and you won't see any difference between the Index +Page+ to the left and the child +Page+ to the right - except the word Home.

Repeat this with all the child +Pages+ in turn, and now you can't tell which +Page+ is active except for the large +Text+ on each +Page+ . You might find this a useful way of keeping exactly the same background through all your web +Pages+.

An alternative - and even more interesting - possibility is to make the child +Page+ translucent. Select the child +Page+, select the {Image} tab, then select the {From colour} button and then in the =Colour Transparency Wizard= slide the transparency slide all the way to the left. This is a useful trick if you have, for instance, a photograph on your index +Page+ which you want to show on all your child +Pages+. Of course, you could say, why not just load it on all your child +Pages+? Well, the answer is that that is exactly what would happen - every time a visitor to

your web site loaded a child +Page+ they would have to load this photograph again, whereas if you make the child +Page+ transparent you only have to load it once. This saves time when loading, always useful when dealing with impatient visitors.

Let's see how this works in practice. We select the {Panel} icon (third from the left in the icon bar) and then select a spot in the Index +Page+ area. A +Panel+ appears, which is just a square with a dashed line perimeter. If we make the +Panel+ active and then select the {Pos.} tab below, we can set the width at 300, the height at 30, the left boundary at 0 and the top boundary at 160. Then select the {Image} tab and choose a cheerful red for the colour of the +Panel+.

If we now make the Home +Page+ active and put a +Panel+ on it with the left set at 0, the top at 160, the height kept at 30, the width adjusted to 1100 and the colour copied from the bar on the index +Page+, it will seem that there is just the one bar running from left to right across the screen. We repeat this for the Pets, Family and Holidays +Pages+.

If we now move the large +Text+ with Home or whatever (either positioning it by numbers in the (Pos.) tab, or by simply moving it with the mouse) to sit over the red bar on each +Page+, then when we move from +Page+ to +Page+ (using the +Links+) we only see the title change in the red bar running right across the screen.

The effect is spoiled a little by the dashed line running vertically to show the left hand edge of each child page. Actually, when we publish the web page on the hard disk of the provider and look at this web page on the internet, we won't actually see this dashed line. In order to have a look at the web pages exactly as they appear on the web, we can do one of two things:

1. we can select the (test) button in the icon bar, which will give us a pretty good idea of what it all looks like, but still has the status bar of DFM2HTML at the foot of the screen. The advantage is that this is a pretty quick way of looking at results. When you want to go back to do some more design, select the (normal) button

2. slower but more realistic is to select Publish>Preview (or press {F5]) and you will see how the web page looks in your normal browser. To go back to the design stage, simply select the DFM2HTML logo at the foot of your window.

So now, with a bit of luck and a fair amount of work, we have a number of +Pages+ - child +Pages+, grandchild +Pages+ and perhaps even greatgrandchild +Pages+ - each with its own colour and each with the title of the +Page+ prominently displayed; you can navigate from one +Page+ to the next or to any other +Page+. There's still not much information on each web page, but the bones of the system are there.