My older web pages have the standard colors but now I tend to have the same colors for the link, visited and active (or just a slight difference), all different from normal text color so the link is obvious, and a contrasting color for hover.
I'm also using highlighted backgrounds of a slightly contrasting color on hover.
Code downloaded to my PC will be deleted in due course.
WIN7; IE9, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari for Windows; screen resolution usually 1366*768.
Also IE6 on W98 with 800*600 and IE8 on Vista 1440*900.