Make a Very Simple Shape a Bit 3D and repeat it.

I have a full page web illustration for a background made up of this shape:
I want to make it a little more interesting than just flat and you can see my attempts based on web 2 shiny button tutorials. But that's not what I want. In fact, I think I just want like a Photoshop bevel.
Trouble is, that my illustration has about 60 of these shapes of about 7 different colors, different sizes and rotate. I have been looking at using shapes but that still doesn't feel particularly intuitive to me yet.
Anyway to summarise, I have a large, flat, web image with lots of flat colored shapes that I want to make a bit more solid looking. I could do with a few pointers.
Thanks
Martin

Perhaps you just want a 3 D effect with a bevel you can control the height of the extrude as well as the bevel.
You can turn them into symbols and use the symbol tools to color them scale and transform as well or graphic styles to applied to various shapes.
If you use a graphic style you have to color them after applying the styles as you would with a symbol.

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