Very interesting thread, and for sure you cannot get it completely right for everybody.
I used to have somebody else do my webpage, but the problems involved in getting quick changes made became unworkable. So I created my own and can make changes as quick and as often as I feel fit.

Mo The Caller
I appreciate what you are saying. However, whilst you may have a problem with a dark plain background and white text etc, there are many people who struggle with light backgrounds. Basically, you please one and upset another. Its a hard one to call Mo.
For people who are Dyslexic, there is a big problem whatever colour you use as a background. However over time the dark blue background has probably been the best one for a lot of dyslexic's. I have tested people with this problem, using software that lets the user decide what colours are best for them. Most of the time it has usually been a darker backround with light coloured text.
However, I do not use pattened or picture backgrounds as that makes it difficult to read text at times, especially when the pattern is the same colour as the text.
The other thing that can cause problems, is the PC itself and its abilty to deal with windows colours etc. What seems fine on one screen can be aweful on another.

Richard, is the problem with Faldingworth Live to do with too much info, when you are scanning down for who is on? or something else?
I am interested in that and if you have a valid point, I would only be too glad to make changes accordingly.
One of the issues I have is that locals, who are not folkies, have no idea who the performers are, so I go to lengths to help them know the sort of performer(s) who is on. For people who are folkies, thats not a problem as they probably know the artist.
I used to create a seperate page for each evening and have a front page summary with links to each event. I stopped doing that as i was finishing up with too many pages.
I think what I might do is have a summary of each event with a link to more detail, lower down on the same page, so that when an event is over, I can quickly delete it.