[Shelley_c]

Interesting...

What you have displayed there is simply a black background with white text. No images to break the colours, no nothing to break the two tone colour. so I guess the statement is fairly accurate (though this would depend on the content). You set permissions so that users would need to register then they will register. You add a few icons, borders and such and you can turn this monstrosity into a visually appealing piece. Infact, I reackon I could get away with designing grey-scaled icons and still make the white text on a black background visually acceptable. I've done it.

I guess this could be fun by setting a challenge and have members design a template only able to use white text, black background and allowed to design icons etc to show the difference between the page you linked to and a more visual members attempt by showing how much better a few icons make.