Tips and Tricks

Choose Contrasting Colors
The biggest mistake that people make when it comes to color choice is that they choose colors that do not contrast. For example if your Page Background is white and your Button Background is white and your Button Text is white it's going to seem like you don't have any buttons. Any color settings that have similar names - like Button Text and Button Background or Textbox Text and Textbox Background - should be two different colors with high contrast like black and white.

Using Color Hex Codes
If you have a specific color you want to use - such as your official school or organization colors - then you can use that color's hex code to make sure you use the exact color you want. Hex codes start with the # symbol followed by 6 characters. For example black is #000000. If you do a Google search for "color picker" you can find many tools that will help you choose a hex code. You can then insert that hex code anywhere in the Project Website that uses colors.

Edit Page Style or Edit Global Style?
We strongly recommend that you do not use the option "Edit Global Style" in the Page Style Designer tool. The Global Style is the site defaults for all pages your organization has ever or will ever create, which means using this option will overwrite settings for all existing pages. It also means that those settings that you set on the global level will no longer be editable on the project or page level.

 Copy Design to Descendants
If you want to use the same design settings for all pages for the Project Website you're working on make the changes on the landing page then use the option to "Copy Design to Descendants" when you're done.