I use paint shop pro myself :-)

Most snooker websites are green - but i've only ever seen one green website that looked good and the rest are terrible .

Perhaps you are putting the same sort of 'self limitating restriction' on yourself and if that true then its only yourself who is stopping you from using a white background .

I wouldnt really try to put php stuff on your website yet untill you learn some basics .

What you could do now however is start to rename all the files on your website from .html to .php as this will save you much time and hassle later on .

a .html webpage and a .php webpage will display in the exact same way and the one and only difference is the filename extention .

Assuming you change the links in your nav menus to suit - your website wont suddenly stop working :-)

index.html
index.php

Because of the way web servers are setup - you cant have both on your website .

www.blah.co.uk

If somebody clicks on the above - then the web server will search for several different filetypes in a precise order .

index.html
index.htm
index.php
index.asp
etc

And it will display whatever one it finds first .