I'm using Mozilla 1.0.0.

I think the problem is that you don't suggest a colour at all for mortals, and the names are links - meaning that we get our normal link colour. In my case, red.

Whilst looking for this, I was reading the stylesheet (http://empeg.comms.net/stylesheets/stylesheet2.css), and I noticed that a lot of elements specify color but not background-color, or vice-versa. This is a Bad Thing to do, as it means that you can end up with a foreground colour from the site's stylesheet and a background from the user's stylesheet, for example - and I really dislike black-on-black . You wouldn't see this yourself with the most common user stylesheet (or browser's built-in fallback stylesheet) where most elements are specified with { color: inherit; background: transparent; }.