the white background does look horrible - seems to me an excellent way to LOSE patrons/clients that way The mid tone adjustment done above in this thread by zhann looks worse though...sorry Black is definitely the best I also don't like the background colour to the site - that icky grey/purple-ish stuff. It looks like the colour my plasticine used to go when I had mixed all the separate colours together - when I was a kid of course... :+P - anyway...it's yuck (technical term there as you can see)