However, it is recommended that all the pages that are owned by a single unit have a common style. You may wish to have parallel sets of pages, one including graphics and the other text-only. In any case, it's important to add ALT attributes to nearly all images, generally stating what the image is. Also, please keep in mind that some people will be reading your web page using speech synthesizers, which often generate confusing or annoying output with special characters. Generally, web page backgrounds should be no larger than 10K, pale, and close to neutral colored.
Neutral colors are beige or cream, and gray.
A non-neutral color may be acceptable if very faded. A web page background upon which plain text is difficult to read has too much contrast within it, and is unacceptable. Pure white backgrounds, however, are often unpleasantly glaring. The background style described here is the most business-like style, but exceptions might be appropriate. Add up the size of your text plus your graphics to find out if your page is likely to be read by the impatient.