I recently updated my theme colors. I really like the boldness of white text on a black background, and the blue links complete the look and feel.
 
It's much better than the plain white that was here before, and simply changing these elements bring a somewhat custom look to the site without have any additional fancy graphics for which I'm certainly not know for.
 
Integrating advertising is going to be a bit of a challenge but I have no plans on integrating any of that at the moment because I'm not much of an ad clicker myself.
 
I hope you like it, and I'm certainly not anywhere close to being done but it's huge improvement over the plain white background with plain black text look that it was 20 mins ago.
 
Cheers,
Joshua Needham