That includes writers like Dave Berry, Ann Landers and Heloise. We are working on posting our daily editorial and the letters to the editor will probably follow. We are using more material from the sports section also. The background is really distracting. You can change it right now.
Most browsers have an option for displaying background colors, background patterns and graphics.
Find that option in your browser and make it default to a background color you find more readable or pleasing. I suspect this comment comes from those using 16-color browsers, but I have only one confirmation of that. What they see is a pattern of bright spots. The default Web background is a neutral gray which is nicely readable, but kind of blah. The background color we use roughly approximates the peachcolored newsprint on which the front pages of the Valley Press were printed for many years.