>>Michel, it's just my impression. I feel annoyed by all those blinking shrill pictures. A waste of time to move my eyes to the important stuff.
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>We will add more experience in our banner design from now on.

Ok ::)
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>>Those colors are bad all the time then. I think the "outer frame" has changed, thats where the blue on grey is annoying.
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>The previous color was white for the menu, what you call as the "outer frame". Now, it is very close to white and many may still think it is. Before, the background was a dark blue, now it is a light blue.

But dark blue gives better contrast. Now it looks all a little bit faded. Washed. Not crisp.

>But, in overall, as I have found on this site, no matter what we do, we will never please everyone.

How ever will solve this problem? You ask for impressions, remember?

>>Then it's just the optical impression that squeezes the inner area. The outer frame is to strong,
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>It was stronger before. But, if we ever adjust it later on, we will, as I say, add more experience to it. So, that should help.
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>>Anyway the page centered with wide bars looks a little bit lost on my 1600 pix wide screen. A page that will not fit screen width looks allways like poor design to
>me. (First impression?)
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>Ah ok, on that one, the previous design was stretching to the entire browser area, which was really bad on such high resolution. BTW, I run at 1920, so my resolution is bigger thus the previous design was more not suitable for me. We will add a color to fill up the empty area. It just doesn't make sense to have a Web page to auto stretch based on the browser area. It worked for a while but this was really bad for reading and stuff like that. But, filling the empty area with a color will help.

Its up to you. But I think white or colored empty areas are wasted space. Why do I waste money for a large screen if it shows nothing then useless colors? ::)
I've checked the downloads page for example. Because of the missing autofit, I can read lesser topics. More scrolling, lesser usability. If you realy think that to wide lines are harder to read, try to do add automatic columns. (If screen is wide enough, use columns)

I think leave it to the old style. If somebody needs it smaller he can alway resize the browser window.

Agnes