you could use a less flashy background color
because one mainly sees the background but less the hyperlinks.
Have a look to the border of the smileys.
There is a pixelisation effect with a white border.
Without clicking, move your mouse pointer above this hyperlink.
With a non white background around, the white rectangular background of the hyperlink is awful.
The suggestion for the background color for the messages in the board
is to be as close as possible of the color of the usual piece of paper --even in the Fantaysia world--
where one writes simply in black on a white background.
