[Princeton]

you can edit the cell background color in the forumhome template by adding inline style to the table/row/cells - (it's up to you)

you can do so in the form

 style="background-color:gold"

to change the links you will have to add a new class (class="newlinkcolor")

<div>$activeusers</div>

change to

<div class="newlinkcolor">$activeusers</div>

now in your CSS (main css), add the following (change to suit your needs)

.newlinkcolor
{
    background: transparent;
    color: gold;
    font: 11px tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.newlinkcolor a:link
{
    color: gold
}
.newlinkcolor a:visited
{
    color: gold
}
.newlinkcolor a:hover, .newlinkcolor a:active
{
    color: black;
}

not tested