The blue does help, but there's still a couple other problems (to my taste, at least). I think if you're going to have the text bound to a center column, you should probably put it in a frame to differentiate it from the rest of the site's background color. It looks kind of awkward on my fairly large monitor. The "Home, Members, and Help" links also look weird on a large monitor, because they spread further apart the larger the monitor is, and the HUGE space between them just doesn't work in my opinion.
Still, it's simple. It works. Better than some of the dreck out there.