Colour Schemes

The 'Colour Scheme' tab within 'Design| Themes (Advanced Theme Configuration)' is used to apply a colour scheme to the design of your store.

The list on the left lists all the system colour schemes that are available to choose from. You cannot delete or edit system colour schemes. You can make changes, but then these have to be saved as a new scheme.

A preview is available underneath the list to give you an idea of how the colour scheme might look with your current design.

To edit a colour scheme, edit the colour fields in the window. You can pick a standard colour from the drop-down or go down to 'Custom.' at the bottom of the drop-down in order to create your own colour with a standard Windows colour selector.

The colours that are available to change are as follows:

Field	Meaning
Background	The background colour for the page. Only active if 'Enable Background Colour' is set to 'True' in 'Site Options | General'.
Text	The basic text colour used in the store.
Applet Background	The background color of the Java applet (used for Actinic's In-Built Encryption system - see Securing Your Online Store).
Applet Text	The text color of the Java applet
Required Field	The color of the text labels of the required fields when placing an order.
Link	The colour for unvisited (never been clicked) links.
Visited Link	The color of a link that has been clicked.
Active Link	The color of the link during the actual click.
Mouse Hover Link	The color of links while you move your mouse over them.
Form Background	Used for the background color of the shopping cart, the order checkout form and the order receipt.
Form Emphasis	Used for the title bar and order total in the shopping cart and for the field labels in the order receipt.
Search Highlight	The colour used to show highlighted search results.
Error Highlight	The colour used for the error messages when required fields are not filled in.
Palette Color 1/2/3	Used to colour the icons in the navigation bar, and the graphics in the theme design.
Palette Background	Palette background should be the same as the background color of the rest of your site.

When you have made a change to a system theme, the following buttons become active:

·      Save As - Save your changes as a new colour scheme, You will need to supply a name for the scheme.

·      Reset Changes - Reset the colour scheme to the system settings.

Once you have created a new scheme, you then have access to the following buttons:

·      Save - Save further changes to your custom scheme.

·      Delete - Delete your custom scheme.

·      Export - Actinic Designer only - Save your colour scheme so it can be imported into another copy of Actinic.

Click 'OK' to apply your changes and close the window, or 'Apply' to apply your changes without closing the window.