Backgrounds with marked colour contrast and effects will often "lose" text on them - see this example. To make use of the decorative effect of these backgrounds and still be able to read the text you can "nest" a set of tables within each other, each with a different background, on top of the original background. This page has three backgrounds : emboss_palegreysq.gif as the page background, emboss_greysq.gif as the next (darker) border and marble_grey.gif as the inner page, on which all the text is placed. To see the HTML coding for this page, left-click on "view" on your browser bar and scroll to "source."