The kinds of color combinations in these pages work ok for me (there is one with dark background and light letters, but that page is mostly about the picture and not the words)...

http://www.geocities.com/squeezemusette/MoreMole.html

http://www.geocities.com/squeezemusette/index.html

http://www.geocities.com/squeezemusette/Links.html

Ignore the bright red of the clicked links. I don't know how that happened. That's not the way I set it up, and I'm going to have to change it.