:) I would use a light muted background - something like pale grey green or blue, and dark text. Then you can add other colors for the lines, etc, that are slightly darker. Here's a color picker:
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on the color and it will bring up at the bottom of the screen a "hexvalue". That value can be typed into HTML in the background tag and also aspart of text tags. For example, I picked a color for your background andyour text that's at the top of your page, and wrote the code. You can usethe code if you like...
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You can replace the numbers in the font tag with anything you like, as long as it corresponds with a hex value, which you can get by going to that page and clicking on the color. You can always plug in the "color=" part of the tag in pretty much any tag that allows for color. Text, background, tables, etc. See this tutorial for more information:
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