I've used <BODY TEXT="#FFFFFF" BGCOLOR="#000066" LINK="#66CCFF" VLINK="#FFCCFF" ALINK="#FF0066">: unvisited link and visited link.
The best way to keep the text off these bordered backgrounds is to set the whole contents of the <BODY> tag within an unordered list tag: <UL>...</UL>
Please copy the images on to your server and don't link them back to this site from your own page. It slows down the loading of your page, and if I shift or rename the images your page will have broken images on it.