Originally Posted by
Egg Bramhill
Further to the above points, it looks like your template is set to white pasteboard & white page background. Open a new web template, set the pasteboard colour to the one you require, grey say, do the same for the page colour, white say, using the method Gary explained.
Now go Save / Save template. Either name it myWebTemplate or over-write the current template (Web Page 960 px (XGA) say). Then every time you open a new document based on this template you won't need to wear your sunglasses :)