Fodors! I like it!
 

I really like the new color combination and the format! And Travel Wire etc. Cool :D
Does everybody else?

((F)) Scarlett

We'll have to see where the vote comes out. I had formica in my kitchen in the mid to late 70s the exact same color of the darker rust, and I had a Samsonite floor w/both the orange and rust colors, so maybe it just reminds me to much of that. You don't see much rust these days, maybe fodors will bring back the trend.

Wow, that POPS! No ho hum here. I'll bet everyone's eyes widened when the page opened.

I like it too....but when I click on any of the new forums....I get the smiley legends...((r))((r))((r))

Hate it!!! ((n)) Can't stand it -- bring back baby blue!!! ((b))

It's bright. I like it.

emd, Fodors is following the same trend as Sears - check out Sears new Sedona colored appliances

Like the new changes, but PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE.. ADD A Hawaii and Disney section.

MOST (not all) design concepts from the 70's are best left there. They weren't that great the first time around and don't improve when regurgitated.

I kinda regret complaining about that green stripe they added just a month or so ago.

flavors of the moment. just following the trend. I always think Brady Bunch when I see that rust color. LMF

I think that is one of the reasons I liked this right away. The shades of blue and green were depressing and a little gagging to me. I like the bold and warm colors better. I thought of it more as desert colors than that rust ( my first Volvo station wagon in the 70s was rust colored :O )
Have you looked at the Home page yet?

My scroll bar for the posts just disappeared. Sigh. I don't really care about the colors so much as I care about whether I can use the site. Although I would like to add that I'm very happy that Scarlett is gardening. And even has a client! It seems everything is coming up roses!

Now the scroll bar is back. Doh!!!

Awww TG, Thank you! ((F))

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My red threads are now grey instead of red. I found the "red read" easier to see at a glance. :(

That should have been "my READ threads are now grey instead of red." :(

ohhh,

let's just call it tangerine and sunflower... more pleasant sounding than rust. I also thought of my 74' bedroom and ski jacket. ;;)

I'd like it much better w/ red-orange accents, or bright blue... the black is too harsh... it was an eye opener this AM though. =-O

Ditto, ParrotMom. Separate forums for Hawaii and Disney, please!
I love the sunflower colors.....

ARGHHHHHH!!!! ORANGE!!!!! ARGHHHHH!

It looks like the latest color scheme for a fast-food chain featuring processed cheese.

ARGHHHH !!!

(But like the format, otherwise).

wsozrebel: Methinks those earthy colors are better off in the dirt of the earth. But it does kind of remind me of Sedona, where I will be hiking two weeks from today, then having a post-hike massage (independent massage therapist, I'll let you know how it goes).

Ouch. After playing on Fodor's for about half an hour and then leaving the computer I see a bright white spot in my upper left field of vision. It must be a result of that bold black FODORS.

I argued that I loved the cobalt and lime color scheme we had before and I knew we'd be punished for so many people complaining. But I call this blaring one "cruel and inhuman" punishment.

I like the new home page better. The Travel Talk home page is also interesting. It even lists the hot threads at the moment. AND there are now more forums. New ones such as "travel lounge" Guess that's where we'll have to hold Friday night cocktail hour now. :)

Very interesting, Fodors!

Me gusta!
R5 (et al) send me your new e-mail addy and I'll foward the pics and views from SMdA.
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I was thinking that the colors are really late 60's - I remember wanting to repaint my room like this - but my mom nixed it.

But it does seem to work for a web site. About 10 times better than that largely illegible sickly green combo.

I don't get it, my "read" threads are still "red"

cd....well, my unread are blue and now my read ones are grey. I liked the red better. And, when my cursor moves over a thread, it's orange. Strange.

This color scheme just bothers me, it overwhelms the whole screen and I don't think I'll continue to read the forums if it stays like that. Why can't they keep it blue and red.

I have my computer set to royal blue as my main background color, so that's the color of my upper and lower tool bars. I think that bright blue mixed with all this "rotting tangerine" and "bleached red" is what is really making it all ugly.

I don't like it. I would prefer colors of the Caribbean or soemthing!!!

Wow Statia, that is really strange.

cd, people say they are having the same effect as I am over on the European forum. Glad you still have red, though!

Mine is the same as yours Statia.

I really like the new look! The colors are much easier on the eyes.

Statia--I am seeing the same colors as you (grey/red, orange).

One word - ewwwww.

(Is that a word?)

Overall, I like it. I do think that the content pages look better than the forum pages, but the forum is a script running in separate frames. I don't think the blue belongs in the new color scheme.

I think they're trying to mate the website to the new look of the book covers. All of the new books since mid last year look like this.:

http://www.fodors.com/shop/buy/?isbn=1-4000-1411-5

I think they got the dark orange a little off and would have done better to match the lettering in "France". Not so hard on the eyes. And it might not be a bad idea to force the white to a warm off-white, to tone down the contrast, but web designers for commercial sites still hang on to that white to show they mean business.

Well, even though I like the "read" better red, now I feel left out. First I miss the party last night, and now I'm different.

I noticed the Hot Topic area on the main page. Somehow I have a feeling that it will be filled with Portland/OR Coast threads soon, lol!

Ok, you know... a little time has passed and I thought I liked it. It matched the book covers. But after sitting and reading through some threads, It's starting to get to me. I get halfway through a sentence and my eyes go vwooop, right up to the upper left hand corner. The black blob never escapes your view.

Maybe it's to reduce the average sitting time on these boards? Kind of like how fast food joints intentionally install uncomfortable furniture and keep the temps at zero degrees in order to get people to eat and leave as quick as possible?