There's a neat parchment background at http://www.johncfish.com/bggallery/parchmt.jpg. A color scheme suitable for use with it would be color bars of #996633 with #FFF8F0 text, ordinary black text, and links like so:
 LINK="#CC6600"
 VLINK="#993300"
 ALINK="#FF6600"

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Here's a sample page with that scheme: 
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY BACKGROUND="http://www.johncfish.com/bggallery/parchmt.jpg"
 TEXT="black"
 LINK="#CC6600"
 VLINK="#993300"
 ALINK="#FF6600"
>
<table width = 80%>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#996633"><H2><font color="#FFF8F0">Perl Monks</font><
+/H2></TD>

</table>
<table width="98%" align="center" id="titlebar">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td valign="middle" class="titlechooser">
        <h3 class="superdoc">Super Search</h3>
      </td>
      <td valign="top" align="right" class="monktitlebar">
        &nbsp;<a href="/index.pl?node=Obfuscated%20Code">Obfuscation</
+a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="/index.pl?node=Perl%20Poetry">Poetry</a>&nbsp
+;|&nbsp;<a href="/index.pl?node=Cool%20Uses%20for%20Perl">Cool&nbsp;U
+ses&nbsp;For&nbsp;Perl</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="/index.pl?node=Snippe
+ts%20Section">Snippets</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="/index.pl?node=Code%2
+0Catacombs">Code</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="/index.pl?node=Craft">Craft
+</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="/index.pl?node=Perl%20News">Perl&nbsp;News</a>&n
+bsp;|&nbsp;<a href="/index.pl?node=Reviews">Reviews</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<
+a href="/index.pl?node=Tutorials">Tutorials</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="
+/index.pl?node=Newest%20Nodes">Newest&nbsp;Nodes</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a h
+ref="/index.pl?node=Offering%20Plate">Offering&nbsp;Plate</a>&nbsp;|&
+nbsp;</font><br />
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
<table width="60%" align="center" id="titlebar">
<TR>
Here is some ordinary text just sitting on the page waiting for you to
+ read it.
It looks pretty good, doesn't it? You find yourself liking this scheme
+ more and more.
You feel inspired to implement it.
</TR>
</table>
</BODY>

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The PerlMonks advocate for tr///

In reply to Re: Ideas for PerlMonks Themes (ancient) by Roy Johnson
in thread Ideas for PerlMonks Themes by Seumas

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