Web site color choice

I attended (and thoroughly enjoyed) your course in San Francisco a few weeks ago. You talked about color choice for computer displays, and recommend reducing glare by picking a black background, as this is less stressful to look at for long periods. You showed a web site or two with this kind of color scheme.

I can’t help noticing that your own web site does not follow this approach. Not that I dislike the color theme you selected for the site — a similar background color to the cover and paper used in the books, red highlights and link color for separation, and a decent sized serif font (Times Roman or equivalent) for easy reading. I just don’t know much about color selection and wondered why you made your choice vs. a dark or black background.

Mathew