Dreamweaver - Change the background color for the "body" portion of the page

go to "window" -> "CSS styles"

click "All" to switch from "Current" mode
(All mode displays all the CSS Styles associated with the current page)

Expand the <Style> entry in the All Rules pane (click the + button)

select body and click Edit Rule (the "pencil icon" at the bottom of the CSS Styles panel)

when the CSS Rule defineition for "body" dialog box appears, select the Background category

then, click the BAckground color box to open the color pixer

then, use the eyedropper to select a color in the color pixer

***Note:  brackets ("<  >") indicate that a CSS style in internal to the document. If a style is external to a document it would show as someting like  "charliestyles.css" in the CSS styles panel.


Reference: "Adobe Dreamweaver Classroom in a Book"