Backgrounds?

When designing a website, it is important to have a good color combination, but a thing which is usally looked upon by our webmaters is the background color. I personally think that matching color shouldbe used for back ground but in a lighter shade, e.g. if the websites color in navy blue, a light blue shade should be used as a combo. However, many poeple stick to the white back gorund, which i sometimes find quite unpro. What are your thoughts on it? Do you prefer White, Black or matching background?

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Most of the times I use grey background. I dont know why but this color looks awesome in background (at least to me). Sometimes I use different colors too depending on situation.

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i generally prefer light colors rather than dark but sometimes i put dark colors like red

I am using light or dark backgrounds, depending on the layout I make. I also use some nice gradients. Make the site look even more beautiful. The gradients need to be discreet though, otherwise they become tiresome for the eyes

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In my mind the background must match the site a black or white background needs to fit in to be used otherwise a different colour should be chosen. I also think that backgrounds should just be one coloure and I do not like a site with a image repeated over and over as a background

The combination of blue and silver is nice.
it shows professionalism on the site.