People also mentioned Dick Gaughn, he told me off mightily once for using green as my site background as he is an advocate of certain web design standards.... but we've stuck with it and got complaints when we dabbled with changing it.
i like how gaughan's a total web nerd now (hence all that WC3 web standards stuff - you know you'll apparently be alienating blind + partially sighted users?) ... no luddite he