Someone use this color combination.

Learning CSS at the moment, actually. Funny how you brought this up. I know there's a lot of way to format text, but if there's a way to do this, I haven't learned it yet. But I really think it'd be way better than the glow-effect.And yeah, tables would be a nightmare. Less of a hassle with CSS though.

Code:

.shadow {
  text-shadow: 1px 0px #000, -1px 0px #000, 0px 1px #000, 0px -1px #000;
}

It's not too tricky. Just leave out the blur.

I don't know how bbcode is translated to html but it should be pretty similar to the glow tags, just

Code:

[outline=black]yadda yadda[/outline]

or something.