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Access the Navigator and click the Pages
tab.
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On the row that contains Page Styles, click Create.
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In the Display Name field,
enter a name for the style, which will be used on the Navigator and
throughout the product. The name
must not exceed 40 characters. Optionally, add a Description.
The description is available only in edit mode, and thus is not
intended to help users of your style determine the style's purpose or
content. The description must not exceed 200 characters.
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Select Make Public to make
this style available to other users.
If you select this check box, other users see the name of your style
in the list of available styles when they are creating or editing a
page. Users can also use your style as the basis for creating their
own. (Only users with the Publish privilege for All Styles see this checkbox.)
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Click the radio button that pertains to the caching option you want
to impose. When you cache a page style, it does not have to be
retrieved from the data base each time a page using that style is
displayed. Instead, the page style is held in a caching area until
either it is updated, or a specified amount of time elapses. Both
methods reduce the amount of time required to display a page.
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Choose Validation Based Caching
to retrieve the page style from the data base only when a change has
occurred from the last time the page style was called.
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Choose Expires Based Caching
to retrieve the page style from the data base after the time you
specify has elapsed. Note that the page style will not be retrieved
even if a change has occurred.
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Click Next.
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From the Page Style Element
list, select an aspect of the style to customize. To change the color
of the style element, click a square in the color palette, then click Apply.
(If you know the hexadecimal value of the color you can type it in
the Color field.)
To change the font, choose the desired font face, font color, and
font size, then click Apply.
The <Default> font face renders the text in the default font
specified by the user's browser.
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Fill in the other fields as appropriate for each style element, then
click Apply.
A preview of your color and font selections appear to the right.
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Click Finish.
The next time you create or edit a page, you can select this page
style to apply.
