Most of the documents on your desk have black print on white paper. Choosing a decorative background is another place where many people miss. Since you can put a picture behind the text on your page, some web pages look as if the real message being conveyed is simple stupidity. Setting the background to stomach churning, eye straining colors creates another problem. If you go for pink, the links on your page don't show up.
Most browsers show unvisited links in blue, and visited links in red.
Red or blue letters are unreadable on a pink background. The page I'm on has a red background with white text on it. Visited links are yellow and unvisited links are light grey. When I click on a link, up pops a page with white text on a black background. Visited links are red this time and unvisited links show up yellow.