I've noticed that some posters seem to have a skill for adding color to their postings. While I think that's great in the body of the post, I have a request to make with respect to the actual titles.

Don't know if it's just my computer, but it seems that if the post itself is done in a color (other than the standard Fodor's blue), it DOESN'T CHANGE color (to Fodor's brown--or any other color) to indicate that it's already been read. I realize that this isn't the biggest problem in the world, but was wondering if anyone else had experienced this.

I don't get to read this board everyday, but when I do, I find I have the time to keep checking for new posts, and find that that I keep opening the same "colorful" posts over & over when nothing new has been added, because I can't tell that I've already read it.

Not sure if I'm explaining this properly. I guess what I'm suggesting is that the actual TITLE of a post not be done in a special color. Any thoughts?

I usually leave a portion of the post uncoloured to avoid this problem.
Like this :

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...5&tid=34842992

Does that help?

Thanks, JAGIRL, I think it does. Of course I need to train my older eyes to focus on the non-color portion to see if it's changed, but I can probably train my brain to do that!

I do know that it didn't work on the recent FFR&R thread that seemed to have a portion in blue. But now that I think about it (and I know that I'm crazy to even think about it!), maybe it wasn't the original blue, but a darker version.

I've noticed it too. But I just look at the time of the last post to see whether I'm likely to have already read it.

On my computer, the regular threads go from blue to gray after I've read them. If it's a colored post, it goes from the color used to green. I recently noticed this so I don't use green as the color for any thread titles. I don't know if the same is true for everyone's computer, though. Your color settings do affect these things.

I should've added that color change isn't necessarily a sure way of knowing whether you've read the last post anyway. If someone posts while you're reading the thread, you'll see that post but the color in the left hand column will be blue. In other words, it'll indicate that there's a post you haven't seen when in fact you have already seen it. Hope I'm explaining that clearly!

It has to do with how your "viewed links" are set up. If you go to TOOLS at the top of your browers page, click on INTERNET OPTIONS and on the screen that has GENERAL tab at the top -- click on COLORS down on the lower left -- you can select your colors for VISITIED and UNVISITED...this will enable you to pick an unusual color so you can tell the topic color apart from the VISITED link.

Hope this helped...
Debi

Clear as muddy water, CAPH52. LoL

No, I think we all know what you are talking about. And that is a great point. Sometimes I read a post, then go back to the forum and it shows a new post was added when it was the post I had just read. Sometimes posts even show up much, much later than when they were actually posted.

So, I guess this is all a moot point until Fodor's can get the timing of posts exactly right!!! ;-)

Oops, sorry Debi. We were posting at the same time. Good point!

I still think the way some posts don't show up on time, posting at the same time, etc., is going to affect it too much to go by the thread title changing colors. I think using the time of the most recent post might be more efficient, but who really knows.

GMTA BayouGal -- we seem to do that a lot

I think we have to just accept the limitations here on the TALK forum at Fodors...know that they exists and take the good that we can from here.

But we can still share in our frustrations - i.e. last nights wierd goings on.

Debi

LOL! Many good points, Debi.

It's still a great forum, even with the minor problems we all sometimes experience.

But to be honest, it's the PEOPLE that make this such a great forum, not the format, web design, or programming.

I do know what you're saying about posts caught in what I consider a "time warp" in that you're reading a thread and the new post shows up, but the color hasn't changed to catch up with it.

BayouGal, you're right--the title does go from blue to gray. I guess I'm either a little color blind, or computer colors are muddy. It's actually sort of a brownish gray??

The problem I was trying to address was that when a creative poster uses a new color in the thread title (not the standard Fodor's blue), it doesn't change color at all, so I can never tell if I've read it or not. JAGIRL had an interesting point that she leave part of the post in the original blue. I'm really interested in BayouGal's comment that if the post heading is in color, it will go to green once it's read. I'll have to pay more attention to that.

Oh, I just realized why I may have had a problem--the FFR&R post was done in green to begin with. Maybe that's why it wont "change" to green for me??????

I guess what I was really hoping was that given the confusion, posters would refrain from being "colorful" in their post headings, and reserve them for the body of the messages. Wishful thinking?

I think it's fine to use color in the title - SELECTIVELY. Not the entire title!