Off with their heads! The Color Patrol has spoken!

EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW to the gigantic black Fodor's in the corner. Thank goodness for Post-its. That does the trick nicely. I was one of the few who liked the green/blue combo and now I miss it even more.

"Here's the story..." I'm 12 again, shag is in and I saved my allowance for a lava lamp. Wow, man.

Fodors got rid of the blue ball logo because we figured out that is where they were hiding the camera after an editor said "Believe me, we are watching".

I think it's fun for a quick change, but the old colors were prettier! That black logo is a bit jarring!

dcespedes, yeah, sorry to say that I do wish this web designer would lose this particular account. I'm sure he or she has plenty of others. But we'd best get used to these 70's colors folks. I predict they're here to stay whether we like it or not.

Ami, me gustan.
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I don't mind the orange and yellow. Hold on...I just saw the pop up in lime green and aqua. I really like that combo. The black Fodor's oval is bothering my eyes too and it is hard to see the grey previously-read posts.

If the Fodor's logo could be changed from black to avocado green, then the 70s flashback colors (ie harvest gold, burnt orange) would be complete.
The color scheme as it is now reminds me of cheap halloween decorations.

Not only is black, orange, and yellow an awful combination, it hasn't been popular in almost 30 years.

Some of the above remarks are utterly baffling--greyish brown on the left? "Read" posts now in grey? Not here! I respectfully submit that some of us are either perceptually-challenged (so much nicer a term than "color-blind", doncha think?) or are laboring under poorly chosen color schemes on our home PC's.

That said, I don't mind the new color scheme except to the degree that it clashes with blue and red--in for a penny, in for a pound, Fodor's! If the ornage stays, the red's gotta go, and the blue is doomed, too.

The Gates at Fodor's. Sort of a virtual gates :?

To me the colors appear to be mustard and saffron. I wonder if it's in honor of Christo's Gates in NYC.

In actuality, the colors are the same as my parents' patio furniture. Watch a rerun of "I dream of Jeannie" and you'll see the patio furniture I grew up with.

I can't wait for poppy red to appear. My mom's old refrigerator was that color. Watch a rerun of "Roseanne" to see that.

I find the color combination to be better than the bile green of before (or as someone called the color: Mountain Dew).

I like the BOLD Fodor's at the top and the links in larger font size. Better for the blind and people with a shaky mouse/click finger.

hhmm, not bad! As long as the site works though, I'm happy.

The web designer has got to be a twenty-something. These colors reek of the early to mid seventies and are repulsive to anyone fourty or over. I can't decide if I'm at a halloween party or in a seventies kitchen.

How about doing a contest of five different designs for the web site and let the users pick the winner? I will be the first to enter the contest.

Hi Jor, I am a teeny tiny bit over forty still digging the new color scheme. Yes, I am the minority being perhaps one of three who admits to liking it, a lot! I do like your idea of a contest--guess what I'll be voting for ;-)

Before the topics I've opened would turn red. Now they go from dull blue to dull grey, such a strain on the eyes when I try to see where to start opening.

I like the "hot topic" main page though.

I really really hate these colors...is anybody @ Fodors listening to us?? That orange, gold & black has got to go. Does this remind anybody of A & W???

Wow, reminds me more of a brick building, like a jail.

By the way, what happened to the daily trivia questions? Now I see it, now I don't :) Once I even managed to click on it, took me to some weird page, like b-logs which I never read.

Now it looks like a combination of Frommers.com and Lonely Planet. I guess if you can't beat em, emulate em.

I don't care one way or the other - just don't change the structure of the forums! They are so much easier to navigate than any other site I visit.