The new site design is distracting

[gadgetphreak]

Sorry Steve...

The new site design is really bad on several levels... The color red is too overpowering and visually too loud, makes it hard to focus on the rest of the site. Softer, less powerful color tones (grays, greens, blues) are far easier on the eyes.

Also, the icons indicating when you have new posts are really hard to make out compared to the others. Too many pics of your car... Its a nice car but really not user friendly when trying to see where the changes are.

Cheers,
Gadget

[1996 328ti]

Sorry Steve...

The new site design is really bad on several levels... The color red is too overpowering and visually too loud, makes it hard to focus on the rest of the site. Softer, less powerful color tones (grays, greens, blues) are far easier on the eyes.

Also, the icons indicating when you have new posts are really hard to make out compared to the others. Too many pics of your car... Its a nice car but really not user friendly when trying to see where the changes are.

Cheers,
GadgetI guess it really depends on your monitor. The colors are the actual hex equivalents to the Motorsport Pantone colors.
I would like to have a simpler car graphic but that was the best I could do.
I agree, it is too much. I don't even own that car anymore. Any graphic artists out there?

You can change the style in your user control panel to default or use the style changer on the bottom left of the page.

[gadgetphreak]

Yeah I just saw that in this post: http://www.318ti.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5229 was very relieved to get it changed back to default...

Thanks,
Gadget

[CirrusSR22]

It looks fine to me.

But... is there anyway to tell if there are new posts in a forum/section without opening it up??

[schussey]

It looks fine to me.

But... is there anyway to tell if there are new posts in a forum/section without opening it up??


top of page, says "New Posts." Will do a quick search for every new post

-chris

[Tyler]

The colors are only red before you sign in. After that it goes back to normal. I think it's fine,doesn't bother me at all

[pdxmotorhead]

HMM, I see red trim after signing in... IE for a browser or Mozilla both do it...

Dave

[L84THSKY]

Why is your car shown in every section??????



I guess it really depends on your monitor. The colors are the actual hex equivalents to the Motorsport Pantone colors.
I would like to have a simpler car graphic but that was the best I could do.
I agree, it is too much. I don't even own that car anymore. Any graphic artists out there?

You can change the style in your user control panel to default or use the style changer on the bottom left of the page.

[1996 328ti]

Why is your car shown in every section??????I didn't know what else to use. I wanted something animiated for new posts.

HMM, I see red trim after signing in... IE for a browser or Mozilla both do it...
You can select the style from the bottom left.

OK, OK. I'll go back to the boring default style.