Because of my sunny disposition I think it's fine.

Hi Dog_Mother.

Here is the website: www.fodors.com/forums/smileys/

Enjoy! ((*))

If you go into monitor controls and tone down the red and a bit of the green and play up the blue...VOILA! lovely colors.

Unfortunately, my online photo albums don't look quite the same. :)

Thanks, LI!

DM

I'm with you jsmith--I love it! :-)

Absolutely hideous. I just logged on and thought I was in the wrong place. From soothing blues and a green that I was getting used to and didn't hate to my two least favorite colors. I'm stunned. Incredibly tacky.

I like Provençal sunflower yellow and tomato red BUT that huge Black and white Fodors turns it into, as NYCFoodSnob says, an auto shop sign

We world travelers don't adjust well to change.

The "tomato red" looks totally orange to me. Guess it's time for a new monitor. :-)

I don't see no "tomato red" neither, Jennifer. :)

But that aside, this lovely new color scheme got me thinking ... about a t-shirt I last wore on Queen's Day in Amsterdam in 2000. I'm positive it must be tucked away somewhere in a closet -- and I now have a sudden urge to don it ... please excuse me while I go search for it ...

http://www.osubookstore.com/MerchIte...&Big=False

Let's hope one of the Fodor's editors "dips" into the forums and reads these comments!

This is GHASTLY....just GHASTLY!!!

Going to hunt for some duct tape to cover up the top third of my monitor screen..........

I like the new colors - they are warm and sunny to me. However, I agree about the black and white sign being too obtrusive and the missing flying man. Also, my read threads do not change color at all, I hope this is temporary. For comparison purposes I pulled up frommers and fodors home pages and overall I think fodors is nicer.

My Mom always said--"How the package is wrapped doesn't matter. It's what's inside that counts."
Mom is always right!
As long as the information given out on this site continues to be good I don't care what colors they choose.

Duct tape! Now there's a thought :-)

But, kp, in this case the package obscures the product and interferes with using it, IMHO.

Reminds me of the morning...sunrise, orange juice, egg yolks.

Duct tape and canopies...you guys are SO funny! I'm thrilled to hear many of you have taste after all. ;;)

I'm surrounded by pastel shades of vanilla, cream, pink, white, and a splash of magenta in this minimalist Miami mecca known as The Shore Club. Pretty hotel. My first time here. It's seriously clean and crisp (not exactly my style) but, hey, the client's picking up the tab. Imagine the horror when I bring up the Fodor's site on my Powerbook. Reminds me of the original Broadway musical "Hair." (Maybe this belongs on the "I'm so old that..." thread.)

Nice cuss, Marilyn, but I thought the blue and green was a Martha Stewart wannabe that never quite cut the cake. I think the flying angel should have remained a tradition. A true class-act corporate symbol.

Every web designer (worth his/her paycheck) knows mustard-yellow and bright orange are very, very difficult colors to please a mass audience. Very few people can wear these colors let alone look at them for long periods of time.

Maybe they don't want some of us hanging out here anymore. I can take a hint. Who wants to be reminded of Midas when you want to talk travel anyway?

Anybody care to join me at Nobu?

Betsy's comment about scrolling the header away inspired me to play around with this. I saw no way to do what she did until I tried the method described below. It works for me, but I use Mozilla; dunno about IE. Try this:

1. hold down the CTRL key and press the "+" key (the "+" key on the numeric keypad, not the one above the "=" ) several times. Each press should make the type in all three frames on the page larger. (you will find this feature in Mozilla help for "Keyboard Shortcuts - Increase Text Size")

2. after about 7 keypresses, a single letter takes up all of the space in the frame on the left. Notice that the top frame, where the offending graphic is, has grown to the point where all you can see is the yellow background color.

3. position the pointer in that frame - anywhere in the yellow - and scroll down (there isn't a scroll bar - I use the mouse wheel). The huge text will scroll by and then whitespace appears. Keep scrolling until only whitespace can be seen.

4. now return the text to its normal size by holding CTRL and pressing "-" on the numeric keypad. If it works for you the way it does for me, the whitespace remains in the top frame, but the bottom two frames return to normal. Do not go back to the top frame and scroll the other way, the header will appear again and you will have to repeat the process. The same holds anytime the page is refreshed - posting, changing the forum, or just doing a page refresh will reset everything; but reading messages and moving forward or backward 50 messages should work fine without disturbing the top frame.

An awkward and inelegant solution, to be sure, but also an interesting exploitation of a Mozilla feature. For myself, I didn't even notice the changed header until I read this thread!

I didn't notice this thread and instead posted on a thread started by someone who actually likes this horrible new graphic scheme. I'll copy and paste my post here, where it belongs, with some changes and additions:



It hurts to look at it. I think I need to get a piece of cardboard to cover up the top two inches of the screen when I'm on Fodors. The graphics are garish and distracting in the top banner, yet the "highlighted" titles and IDs in the actual threads are too pale. It seems to be more difficult to find my ID at the top of the page, and I do need to find it easily, since I often click on it to see activity on threads where I previously posted.

I also hate the main page. The list of forums is in small print, but bright, so it's painful to look at.

This seems to be change just for the sake of change, even if it makes this worse rather than better. Meanwhile, the search function is still rudimentary, we still can't use a full range of foreign characters, and many old threads are still lost, fallen out of the indexing system and unsearchable. The Fodors approach seems to be to work on unimportant things first.

There's probably too much traffic on this site, and there are so many posts that it becomes difficult to find old threads. Maybe the discomfort caused by this new graphics sheme will cut down on traffic, so only masochists, true addicts, and people will an urgent need for geneuine travel info will continue to participate, and, as a result, the site will be less cluttered. But could that possibly be what the site oweners actually want?

as an IT person, way too many colors are being used on that homepage. the color scheme (the blues) on the "post a reply" page are much better. it'll be an interesting Monday morning for the web guy...crossing my fingers for you dude.

I hate it!! My moniter must be full of static electricity because I just pulled a piece of paper from my printer and it is sticking like glue to cover the top of the screen and the totally garish new color scheme. Yuck!