I adapted some code I had for animating the color of text for animating the colour of the background. But now the code is a little buggy. In Chrome the background changes to white on the first hover over, and in all browsers it just takes ages to load (I have the plugins stored on the server if that makes a difference), so you have to wait a few seconds to get the effect. Here is the code:

```
$(document).ready(function() {
    $(".olli").hover(function() {
        $(this).stop().animate({ backgroundColor: "#e8e5e2" }, 500);
    },function(){
        $(this).stop().animate({ backgroundColor: "#dbd6d0" }, 500);
    }); 
});

```

The .olli class comes from this:

```
$("#ulnav > li").addClass("olli");

```