Well...after a Google search I found nothing but mouse-over effects...so...here's the problem :

http://conveiniencestore.blogspot.com/
Tales From The Conveinience Store

I found a great background but...the text is hard to read...so...I tried several different colors from this site...

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp
HTML Colors

but because there are so many colors in the background I couldn't find any that could be easily seen...so...

I thought maybe I could highlight the background of the text...not a mouse-over but as a permanent fixture...or...

possibly if there's no way to highlight the text...create a shadow behind it to make it stand out.

Any suggestions as to how? and what code I should put in the template?

Thanks!!!

Eg