Fodors, who is redesigning your site?
 

Maybe if you keep redesinging your site I will be able to read only one thread topic at a time instead of two. Used to be able to see about eight at one time.

thanks for changing it back.

Mine is still sewer pond green. Has the color been put back to blue on other monitors??

I like the green, it's a cool change. Change is good, sometimes! I have a leather purse this color with my initial on it! ***kim*** (~~)

Ugh, distracting sewer-pond green, and teeeny tiny type next to the search and topic boxes.

And what's that logo in the middle of .com? A new moon with a vampire flying in front of it?

I'll bet your designers are all under 30. Please have mercy on those of us with older eyes!

I like the old "swoosh"of blue across the screen from the old days!!!
I have a prada bag the color of the green at the top of the screen, but it hurts my eyes to look at it!!

That's it, anne!!
We have to have Fodors make the pages colors that match our bags :D
I am sure that will draw many new female posters LOL
Make mine Prada Pink ...giggle.

A new moon with vampire flying in it. It is halloween time, right? Maybe there will a pumpkin or pilgrim for Thanksgiving. "Someone" is trying to be creative. So can we expect bright orange for November!

yes, the count caught my eye too.

I noticed the flying guy a few weeks ago.

That green is definitely *not* in my color palette, however! ;-)

Lee Ann

I just carry a plain backpack, so I don't need a page to match my bag, but I think it would be nice to have the pages match my cats. One is calico and the other black and white. That should give Fodors enough range to come up with something truly stylish.

Pleassssssse bring back larger print!

I cannot see the reason for all the concern about the colors, logos, or type fonts. I visit Fodors for the content, and hardly notice the graphics, except those god-awful smileys that so many go overboard in using.

As long as there is no blinking or moving graphics/text, I hardly even notice it. If you (no one in particular) have a problem with text size, learn how to adjust your browser. If the graphics disturb you bad enough, use a text-only browser like Lynx.

If you can do a better job of hosting a forum, then by all means, publish one. You could be the next biggie in the online world.

rb, the bilious green is distracting to many of us, and the text that we have size issues with is not affected by "text view" adjustments.

That "offending text" are graphic images, not text. The wording within never changes.

One reads "POST A NEW MESSAGE - Registration required"

Another: "SEARCH THIS FORUM - Type a word or phrase" followed by "AND/OR TOPIC - hold down control key to click more than one"

Use a post-it to cover the strip at the top.

Problem solved. Next issue.

rb, I don't think anyone is arguing that Fodors doesn't have the right to do what it wants with it's site, or that we can do a better job. And I agree that the price we pay for getting great free info is that we may have to put up with graphics or colors we don't love.

But the problem here seems to be that this particular change has resulted in making the site very unpleasant for some viewers. I personally find the green border across the top actually hurts my eyes, and it seems to extend into my peripheral vision even when I try to avoid looking at it (and no, I'm not going to put a strip across my computer). Unlike the size of the graphics, I don't think I have the ability to change that. And again, it not that I don't happen to "like" the new color, but rather that it actually makes my eyes sting and water and start to shut. Big difference.

I promise this will be my last on this subject, and it's a serious suggestion.

When you see the list of topics to the left, right click on the topic you wish to read, and take the choice "Open in a new window" (or press N) and you'll get a separate window with no color strip and with the messages going across the entire browser window, instead of having separate topic and message frames.

I strongly believe that freedom of the press belongs to those who own the press, and for what we "pay" to visit, we have zero to say in the administration. Even tho I have good peripheral vision and older eyes, I hardly see the strip as I read the text, and I don't have any problem reading those graphics, as long as I'm wearing my "specs". But then I just got my exam & new glasses 6 mo ago. Maybe others could make an appointment soon as well.

cd, the larger print has nothing to do with Fodors site. Hold down your control key and spin the wheel on your mouse.

This color is fugly.

The green doesn't bother me either. The logo has not changed at all. The strange flying person has always been there. It's on my Fodor pin.

How do I get a Fodors pin? ((b))

Oy. The last time I saw something this color green was my sinus infection of two weeks ago. It didn't look good on my Kleenex, either.

And the pins were from back in the mid-90's, right?

I got my pin when they started registration. I've only been visiting since 2000, so I can't say what it was like in the mid-90s. When did the site open?

The new green band at the top of the page draws my eye and holds it so completely that I find myself staring at it for hours at as time. I'm only able to type this now because a co-worker shook me back awake from my Fodor's induced trance. I'm afraid that I won't be able to visit this site anymore because of the new top border.







You all have to be kidding me...I'm sure that Fodor's paid some high falutin' consultant WAY too much to tell them what new color scheme to use so who are you to take exception. Are you trying to put the color forecasters (yes, there are such people) out of business. The economy would grind to a halt if they couldn't convince us that such and such a color is "out" and the new one "in".

My only problem with the new color scheme is that it is so "70s". I'm still trying to forget 70s fashions ugh.

I find the green distracting too, but it does keep drawing my eyes toward the top of the screen to the logo. Maybe that is what Fodors wants.

It's not the green and blue on the top band that bugs me, but that ugly light browny-gray band underneath it with the poster's screen name on it! That doesn't match or compliment the green/blue combo AT ALL. Yuck.

It is the color of wet clay.

Danny? How about a word or two from the big giant Fodors head?

Peterboy!!! Snap out of it!! Save yourself while you can!!

I really don't have a problem with it -- kind of don't care.

Gosh, do you all really notice it so much? The first time I pulled it up, I thought my computer went flukey, but since then... It's just in my peripheral vision. I don't know... such odd things always happen whenever I sit down to my computer, that nothing new really phases me!

That guy on the o on .com depicts someone who got blinded by the puke green and got squashed by a big blue marble and he is stuck to it. Seams pretty obvious to me.

Am I just crazy or what? If clicking on "hotels", "restaurants", "bargains", etc. Is not the print smaller?? Using "View" and clicking on "larger" does nothing. Have I been drinking too much wine??

CD, they aren't "type" they are images.

Keith