The compliments.dk site used as the opening example might be "beautiful", but the first thing that struck me was the unreadable white text on partially-white ba

The compliments.dk site used as the opening example might be "beautiful", but the first thing that struck me was the unreadable white text on partially-white background (e.g. the "products" and "menu" text). That's looks like a case of misplaced design priorities to me, and is simple enough to "fix" e.g. with a faint drop-shadow around the text (I say "fix", since it wouldn't help user agents which don't implement the relevant CSS)