Crank

I'll start. I like the ability to just to the most recent message or forward the thread to a friend. <BR><BR>I HATE losing a third of the screen to the animated banner, because now I have to squint and scroll to see the list of messages. You can only see one or two of the whole list of 50. And only the shortest posts can fit on the entire screen -- more often all you get is the header and the click-points and the first sentence or two. <BR><BR>Sorry, Fodor's, the extra time/effort it takes to go between keyboard and mouse is annoying and makes me less likely to scan the whole list, much less go on the the next 50.<BR><BR>

Marcos Velez

I definitely LOVE the new format. I thought the old format was a bit "kludgy". The bolds are well placed and the email adresses are clickable! (i know you could copy/paste, but no need to do so now...)<BR><BR>I am not sure what you mean by animated banner taking one third of your screen... I dont even have an animated banner! There is a Fodor's Rants and Raves banner sitting at the very top and i dont think it is larger than 50 or 100 pixels.<BR><BR>Marcos<BR>

nancy

Still trying this on for size!<BR>I am replying to a second post now, and I noticed that the site has retained my name and address in the boxes-strange!<BR>Three things right off the bat;<BR>1-I agree with above poster,<BR> I liked being able to see more than a few questions at a time.<BR>2- this format makes it feel very cramped here!<BR>3-messages posted do not fit into my screen anymore.<BR> when reading the replies to a post, I<BR>must move the message back and forth to read the whole sentence.<BR>Is it the new format, or is it my computer?<BR><BR>Just when we get use to the new format, things change again.<BR>Oh, aren't we all creatures of habit!

Judy

WOW, I thought I was in Wonderland!!! I am not sure how I like it yet! I agree with the Fodor's banner however...it is too big! Nancy, I think it may be your computer....mine seems to fit,,,,I also have a 17" monitor, so I am not sure if that is your problem...me, being such a technical wizard and all....not! Time will tell.......maybe I just need to get used to it! :-0 Judy

Rex

I see now (about not having to re-type name etc) - - must be using a cookie or something - - I assume I could change it to "xxx" or something if I preferred.

s.fowler

I like the new bells and whistles BUT I agree with all above who say that we've lost too much of the screen to things other than the posts. <BR><BR>I am sure the banner space at the top will be used for advertising, and it is a standard size for that. What we are reaping folks, is thep price of success here<BR><BR> Maybe some space could be gained in the next section. There is an awful lot of white space where it says travel talk and search. even a half inch more out of the top and bottom of that section would make a difference. <BR><BR>"Travel Talk" doesn't need to be that big and there doesn't need to be so much white space beneath it and the search box.<BR><BR>I have a 17" monitor set for 800 x 600 and it feels pretty claustrophobic.<BR><BR>BTW my comments are moderately professional as I do teach web page design at my college

s.fowler

There is, on the whole, also too much whitespace at the top of the topics and the posts side.

Dr. Betty

Feeling cramped? In the very far top right of your screen are 3 symbols...a minus sign, a square and the x. Click on the x and voila,,,your screen should get bigger.<BR><BR>The colors here seem much brighter than before. I think I am wider awake than normal for this hour in the morning. What I like is that Sally and I can continue a dialogue without having to go to our email sight.<BR><BR>Dr. Betty

frank

I mostly run Netscape on 1024x768,17".<BR>Too much whitespace 4 me, otherwise fine so far.

Melanie

Particularly with this forum, not being able to select by Geographical topic is a pain. I'm interested in travelling to England and the Cotswolds area, but using the search to find England + Cotswolds (plus how many other search words would I need?) seems like a hard way to glean information.<BR><BR><BR>

frank

Just noticed the autofill for name &amp; address!cool!<BR>The site obviously works differently too, posts appear faster.

Judy

Yeah Frank, Cool....

carolyn

I liked being able to access geographic areas, and I also prefer more messages to appear on the screen. It's too tight.

Marcos Velez

I am replying again, just to add some other comments.<BR><BR>I do a LOT of web development (that's part of my job...) and I must agree that the design does include a lot of white space, but that is necessary to accomodate those running lower resolutions. I normally run my screens at 1024 X 768 while browsing the Net, but use 640 X 480, or 800 X 600, as my base resolution when doing web design.<BR><BR>In addition to the other changes, they really muist have re-worked the search functionality. It is much faster now.<BR><BR>I like that you can create and reply to messages in the same window that you normally read them.<BR><BR>That's all. <BR><BR>Enjoy your day,<BR>Marcos

sandi

I guess I can get used to the format, but I find that it's running much slower..anyone else see that? I tried to reply to a post a moment ago and it just sat and waited and waited...waiting for Fodor's to respond. Yuk..I hope this gets better.

Lori

I don't like the way that when I post an answer to a question, the question list automatically returns to No. 1, which was the one I just answered. I may be 150 questions into the site, and now I have to page forward to get back to where I was. Also, to much space on the sides of the replies. I'm also getting alot of errors.

lisa

I agree that the ad banner at the top seems much bigger now and the actual content in the site feels cramped. I liked the old format better, but maybe I'm just not used to this yet. Also, for some reason it is taking my computer a lot longer to go to each forum when I click on it. Fodors, it would help if you would make it so that we could go directly from one forum to another without going back to the "Travel Talk" main page -- I would like to be able to go directly from the Latin America forum to the Europe forum without going out and coming back in again. <BR><BR>Also, I haven't checked today so I don't know if it's still there, but yesterday there was an article on the main Fodor's page relating to exchange rates, and the decimal points and commas were all wrong. Anyone who read that article and relied on the numbers in it would have an awful lot of bad information (I think anyone beyond grade three would have realized this though, so probably no harm done). It seemed like it must have been some kind of a technical glitch.

Diane

Hmm - am I the only one to notice this is readable without reading glasses? Very big plus for me...now that I'm a doddering old 50-something

nancy

Judy and Dr. Betty,<BR>This must be a conspiracy between Fodors and my husband, to get me off this site by making it too difficult to read replies.<BR>(Am I being paranoid?)<BR>Actually,<BR>my real problem is I have an 11" screen!<BR>I am on my husband's computer now, and there is no problem with reading the<BR> messages, as he has a larger screen.<BR><BR>Now, it is my turn to conspire.... how do I takeover my husband's computer????<BR> <BR>

joe

Please go back to the old format. Or Please MAKE THE FONT BIGGER, I can't read it!!! And it' slooooooow.