Do you like the new Fodor's Home Page?
 

Thought I had landed in the wrong Forum tonight! So...do you like the new Fodor's Home Page??? Travel Talk seems to be buried way down there. You really have to look for it & I knew what I was looking for!

I liked the old home page much better. I was like you, I thought I was in the wrong forum.

For some reason, I tend not to look @ the top tool bar!

I never (or almost never) go into the home page. I just bookmark the Forums and bypass it.

Fodors has Travel Talk buried because the forums have more accurate up to date information than the guides have.

We don't provide revenue. The ads and booksales provide revenue.

A lot of the information on these forums contradicts that in the Fodors travel guides.

Think about the last time you flipped through a Fodors travel guide or the mini guides on the site and seen something glaringly obvious that was missing/ommited/wrong?

I don't. I also thought I was at the wrong forum. The second time I noticed the tool bar up top and got here.

"Fodors has Travel Talk buried..."

How so? It's right there on the prominent, clickable navigation bar at the top of the start page, listed as "Talk".

Levon you are absolutely correct and I don't know how I missed the bar at the top? Where are those reading glasses? LOL!

No - the old home page was better.

Wonderful. I hope they are happy with it. I followed the booking link, never did this before if it was on the old page. I saw, after I followed it, that it was Expedia.

Ditto

The most anoying thing to me is the constant Expedia pop up ads. Enough already!

I think fodors has added opther features w/the change. I saw one post after the change where there was no way to post a reply, the captions at the top and bottom of the post have been removed, so you can still read the post but not add to it.

emd, Fodors does that with controversial threads that still have good information.

You can read the thread but can't post. Those posts are usually heavily edited.

And, Travel Trivia (my favorite feature!) is waaaaay @ the bottom! I can't get to that via the top tool bar.
All in all, I find the new home page "cluttered". There's too much in your face when you open it up. And, add to that the Expedia pop up (as mentioned already) & the over all experience is annoying.

Author: BJinHolland
Date: 03/11/2004, 06:31 am
Message: "The most anoying thing to me is the constant Expedia pop up ads. Enough already!"

In this day and age, why would anyone NOT have a free popup stopper installed on his/her computer? I'd go crazy without one!


I too keep the talk forum bookmarked. I actually go right to the Europe one, then come here after going through it. I had no idea there was a new Home page; I never see it.

Thanks, GoTravel. I've been active on here for over a year but haven't noticed not being able to post additonal comments to a thread before; I've just seen them get deleted all together.

Good point about the free pop-up stoppers, Patrick. The reason that I do not install a "free" pop-up stopper is b/c I believe that nothing is ever "free"! And, when I read clauses such as the following that routinely appear in Free Pop-Up Stopper User Agreements I am reminded of this.
"Nothing contained in this Agreement limits x's( name of co.) liability to you in the event of death or personal injury resulting from x's negligence or for the tort of deceipt (fraud)."

Wow, I am with you on the travel trivia, before I'd try to answer practically each question, now I'm not going to scroll down to look for it!

As for the new layout - before it was easy just to click on USA forum, now I have to go to "talk" and wait and wait and wait till it loads, it's so slow now!

Since I bookmarked the Europe and US forums, I had forgotten there even WAS a homepage.

The old one was more convenient and I HATE the constant Expedia pop-up. Makes me not want to use them.

NO!!!

I hate the new home page too. I was so bummed when it loaded for the first time. Change it back Danny!

I don't like it. Blah.

As they used to say on In Living Color..."Hated It!!"

I liked the old version better!!!

My question is, if you don't like it why do you look at it? Can't you just bookmark this page, so that when you click on to Fodor's you bypass all that and come right here? That's what I do.

It seems that there are numerous Europe board questions posted on the US board since they changed... and the posters don't know how they got here!

Maybe a glitch or something...

I bypass the home page, so I had to go look out of curiousity...

I don't mind the new home page so much but I do agree with total hatred for the Expedia pop-ups. It forces me to read them and it's a complete annoyance. I associate Expedia with the pop-ups and I avoid using them now.