Just a thought, but I wonder if the problem isn't so much the light background as it is the amount of empty space that will be filled with the light background. I regularly visit www.somethingawful.com (some adult content though, be warned), and they use a near-white background with black text. Because the pages are filled with text and images though, I don't find the light background as distracting as in the Renderosity examples above. Perhaps light backgrounds work better on pages where text and graphics are packed tightly together than on forums where the majority of the space is either blank or filled only with text. Like I said though, that's just a personal observation. :) I also saw a post here that said something about choosing the background color for a gallery image that we upload, but now I don't see it...hm, was it deleted? Anyway, since each gallery upload is posted on a separate HTML page, wouldn't it be possible to allow users to choose between a white or black page background (setting the BODY and FONT tags) when they upload an image? That way, everyone could choose the best background color for each individual image they upload and there wouldn't be any complaining. ;) Thanks, take care. SnowS

my DeviantArt page: http://snowsultan.deviantart.com/

 

I do not speak as a representative of DAZ, I speak only as a long-time member here. Be nice (and quit lying about DAZ) and I'll be nice too.