Help: Default page text color/GM text color prob...

Hey GM gurus, could use some help. I'm a real web design newbee so
bare with me here. I'm building a webpage for a client of mine
(typically an illustrator not a web designer) and I'm adding a Gmap to
their contact page. So far I've got the gist of getting the map,
controls, and info tag up and going but the problem I'm having is that
my default page text color is white and so is seems GM uses this for
its text color. I've looked all over and searched the discussion
boards here with not luck on how to set the control boxes and info
windows text colors (back to black). Hopefully there's an easy way.
I'm guess it can be done easier with a "Styles" section or CSS, but
then at the moment I know next to nothing of CSS,.. yet (giving myself
a crash course on CSS today)

Thanks in advanced.

Here's the page for reference
http://www.silvaarchitects.com/contact_us.html
(p.s. how do you add actual URL links to discussion posts here?)