New layout, 5 hours later

I'm not sure how this will work out. It originally started with me wanting to do something about the empty footer at the bottom of the page. Then I tried to fudge around with the supplied templates, and it's not as customizable as I thought. And my HTML skills are super-rusty, and don't ask me about CSS. So I went searching for templates online, about 4 templates later, I found this current one that I could modify to my liking. Some of the font colours aren't that customizable, and apply to things that I didn't expect, but it looks decent enough. Just have to add a few more gadgets, and hopefully I won't have to change it for a long time again. (apparently last time was in 2006.)

However I'm still having problems with finding a font colour that looks good on a black background with font type that also works. White will work, but then I can't see what I'm typing here. That so sucks. And I've tried using bold, but it doesn't always work. So really, the font I'd like is Arial Black, but they don't have it. Argh!