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Customize your design! The Style Site-Admin panel allows you to easily change the colors and the font settings, as well as your site background. We'll explain in this article how to use the different settings that are available to you. If you have questions about a specific function, click on the links in the article table of contents on the left.

Some of the settings below are not available if you are using a layout that doesn't allow for them.


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Font Settings

You can customize the fonts and font styles on your Jimdo Page from a selection of standard fonts. This includes the formatting and styles of headings and horizontal lines, which you can use to structure the content of your pages and make them easier to read.

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Preset Styles

A preset style is a set of formatting instructions for your Jimdo Page. We've put together a few of them for you. Click on a style to see a preview of it on the left. You can base your Jimdo Page's style off our preset options, or you can change everything!

Paragraph text

If you'd like to change the formatting of your paragraph text, this is where you can choose the font, adjust the size, and change the color. Use the color selector button on the right open a color-picker for custom color choices.

Advanced Users: Enter the hexadecimal value in the upper left corner of the color picker.

Headings

Choose the formatting for headings. You can also change the alignment here (left, center, right).

Links

Select the color that you would like your text links appear in. If you make a change, you can see how it looks right away in the preview on the left.

Horizontal Line

If you'd like to change the style or color of the horizontal line, this is where to do it.

Secondary color area

Some [[Layout|layouts] offer the additional option to select the font color for a second area. Click on the link in the box and rubric for selecting additional font colors will appear. Changes here usually only affect the font colors of your navigation.



Color Templates

Attention: This setting is not available for all layouts!

Choose a color template for your Jimdo Page

If you're using a layout that lets you to customize the color of your navigation, sidebar, and/or other parts of your Jimdo Page, Color Templates is where you can change the settings.

Select from the preview thumbnails, which give you a basic idea where which colors will change. If you'd like to preview a color template on your Jimdo Page, click on the corresponding thumbnail.

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As you may remember from previewing different layouts, the color template will appear directly on your JimdoPage and a preview menu box will appear on the upper right, asking whether you'd like to keep the color template, get rid of it, or choose another one.

For visitors to your site, the changes will only be visible if you select "Yes" in the preview menu box. So don't worry about messing up your live site, try out as many color templates as you'd like!


Personalized Color

Attention: This setting is not available for all layouts!

Custom Color Schemes

If our color templates aren't what you're looking for or you want very specific colors, use the color-picker to select exactly what you want.

For those advanced users among you, there's a field in this color-picker into which you can enter a hexadecimal value. Once you do this, the color will be displayed in the mini-preview box to the right. If you want, you can also pick a color using the interface, the hexadecimal value will appear in that field.

By clicking on "save," the color will be overlaid as a preview on your JimdoPage, and the preview menu box will appear again.

If you like your custom colors, click "Yes," if you'd like to change it something else, click "Change," and if you'd like to return to your original color scheme, click "No."

Image:info.png Tip for Firefox users: Was there a color somewhere on a website that really caught your eye? If you want to use it, but can't figure out exactly what it was, install the Firefox add-on Colorzilla 2. You can use it to figure out what the hexadecimal value of any color on any part of a website.


Background Pattern

Attention: This setting is not available for all layouts!
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Two-toned Background Patterns

Just like in the "personalized color" setting (the previous section) you can use the color-picker to pick a color for the background of your Jimdo Page. There are also many background templates on the right.

For every pattern you can choose whether it should be displayed in black or white over your chosen color. Just click on the corresponding button.

If you move your mouse pointer over a pattern, a small popover box should appear. If you click on a pattern, a preview of it will appear on your Jimdo Page, and the now-familiar preview menu box will appear in the upper right section of your browser window, asking if you'd like to accept, remove, or choose another background pattern.

Background Image

Attention: This setting is not available for all layouts!

We have more than just two-toned background patterns! There's a whole set of spiffy background patterns. The "background image" section has a huge gallery of patterns and tiles for you to choose from. Again, you can preview these directly on your Jimdo Page.

Sorry, it's not currently possible to upload your own background tiles and patterns. We know from your feedback that this is important to you -- it's on our to-do list!


Personalized Layout

We hope you'll understand that it's not possible to use most of the settings in the Style panel if you're using your own (custom) layout. Even if you are able to access the settings, most of them will not show up on your personalized layout.

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