Cool dark color schemes for Aptana and Dreamweaver
October 27th, 2010 | Cool Stuff , Fun Stuff , IDE
All these themes are for php, html, css and js files so dont be upset when you dont see any change when you work on java, xml, etc.. files :) These schemes are set for web developers.
Edit : I realized that, the best solution is installing Aptana 3 as an Eclipse plugin and installing themes over Eclipse. You can simply install Eclipse themes from Eclipse Market Place. Go to Help>Eclipse Marketplace and search for "Eclipse Color Theme". You dont need to install themes for Aptana 3, it already has themes inside.
Aptana 2 Themes
NightLion
Includes color themes for CSS, HTML, Javascript, jSON, PHP, PHP Doc, PHP Smarty, PHP Smarty Config, ScriptDoc and XML.
Autumna
Includes color themes for CSS, HTML, Javascript, PHP, PHP Doc and ScriptDoc.
Green Chaud
Includes color themes for CSS, HTML, Javascript, PHP, and XML.
Sunburst
Includes color themes for CSS, ERB, HTML, Javascript, PHP, XML and YML.
LPent Shades
Dreamweaver
Got the content from Tom Sramek's Blog.
Are you coding in Dreamweaver and don't like the default light code colorization? I created dark background color theme for Dreamweaver. I took inspiration from Green Chaud theme for Aptana IDE.
List of supported formats:
- CSS
- HTML
- PHP
- JavaScript
- XML
- Java
- JSP
- ActionScript
- WML
All you need to do is to download Tom's dark DW theme XML file and follow instructions below.
Windows XP users
Dreamweaver CS4
- Close Dreamweaver
- Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS4\configuration\CodeColoring\
- Find and backup file Colors.xml
- Copy file colors.xml downloaded from this site
- Change default background color to #4D4D4D (edit –> preferences –> code coloring)
Dreamweaver CS3
- Close Dreamweaver
- Go to C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration\CodeColoring\
- Find and backup file Colors.xml
- Copy file colors.xml downloaded from this site
- Change default background color to #4D4D4D (edit –> preferences –> code coloring)
Windows 7 users
Dreamweaver CS4
- Close Dreamweaver
- Go to C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS4\en_US\Configuration\CodeColoring
- Find and backup file Colors.xml
- Copy file colors.xml downloaded from this site
- Change default background color to #4D4D4D (edit –> preferences –> code coloring)
MacOS users
Dreamweaver CS4
- Close Dreamweaver
- Go to /Users/%name%/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS4/%localization(en_US)%/Configuration/CodeColoring
- Find and backup file Colors.xml
- Copy file colors.xml downloaded from this site
- Change default background color to #4D4D4D (edit –> preferences –> code coloring)
I like Sramek’s theme, but are there any other published dark DW code color schemes?
Great post,
did anyone already manually change Sramek’s theme into the Aptana themes and feels like sharing it? 🙂
What font is that on the Nightlion screenshot?
The link to Sunburst is broken were can I get the file to download?
Have you coloring for asp language?
Did you install wtp?
Yes, i installed but asp coloring worth.
i not found code coloring folder ?
Omar, if you are on Windows, it is
C:\Users\(USERNAME)\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS6\en_US\Configuration\CodeColoring