[Stop Legal Plunder]

White text on a dark background is always harder to read than dark text on a white background. However, if Free Republic must have the former (i.e. the purple borders), then changing the text to a sans serif font will make it much easier to read.

[breakem]

I like the flag as much as the next guy, but the design on the posts page is too much. Too much flag taking up too much space. Put the flag at the top and get it over with. The screen now is too busy and too artsy.

[Cboldt]

Provide separate settings for:
1. Number of thread TITLES per page, and
2. Number of COMMENTS visible when a thread is opened.

I like to have about 50 TITLES per page, and I just refresh the page to see what the hot topics of discussion are. But, when I wade into a discussion thread, I like to have about 250 comments on that web page.

[NormsRevenge]

Change IS Good ... adapting to change is a bitch sometimes ...

I like the site look and feel, for the most part , I reckun it will morph again soon anyway and thats OK...

Have fun and there are lots of good suggestions below...

??? When the heck do U FreePers guys sleep? My Hat is off to all of you who put and keep FR online everyday

SEMPER FI
---Norm---

[Donzerly lights]

Put 'find in forum' back on profile page.

[Hipixs]

Turn off 'Show Pictures' in browser - this gets rid of the flag background. If you want to see a particular picture, then right click and select 'show picture'; a refresh will hide the picture.

You can also run two instances of the browser - one with pictures and one without pictures. Open the first browser with 'show pictures' selected in options. Then before opening a second instance of the browser run a "pixs off" reg file [copy and paste]:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Display Inline Images"="no"

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The first browser window will show pictures; the second browser window will hide pictures.

[mrsmith]

One sidebar.
Look at all the empty space in the sidebars as one scrolls down the page.
Two sidebars squeeze out the forum comments area.

Put all the options in one sidebar.

One header and one sidebar can hold everything.

One sidebar, not two, one.

Two sidebars are too many- just have one.

IMHO two sidebars is..... redundant.

[Lucky]

As one of the older patriots who doesn't know the computer real well, I'd like to keep it simple.

[Free the USA]

Bring back either the number corresponding to a post or the seconds so that it is easy to scan back to where you finished when you refresh the screen. Add back a capability to view more than 50 posts.

[Pokey78]

Provide 2 cyber aspirins with every visit, because I now have a splitting headache from trying to figure out the new design.

[RedWhiteBlue]

If a redesign does not improve functionality, it is a waste of time and money. I can't figure out what was broken before that this was supposed to fix.

I don't care about "eye candy." What I care about is ease of use -- how intuitive is the site? How quickly and easily can I find what I am looking for? A plethora of great information is available at Jakob Nielson's website HERE. He is considered the guru of web design. Anyone designing a site should go dig through his site before doing any work. It would be time very well spent.

[monkey]

Burn the flag.

[mysonsfuture]

BRING BACK BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[truthkeeper]

I'll try to be productive here. Among other things, I don't like the question taking up so much space on the right sidebar. Please...it's all hard enough to read as it is.

[foreshadowed at waco]

I miss the self-search feature being the way it was...I went to the new page a minute ago...looked like I'd been spammed...way too much clutter...aren't we supposed to be saving bandwidth?...also the flag draped across the left margin as a border...too much like a glossy pamphlet...what was wrong with the old simple format anyway...beware the need to fix what ain't broke (or to get carried away by gadgetry)...are we trying to appeal to the Disney crowd with the glitz?...black ink on white paper with an occasional colored photo of GW, Ann Coulter, etc. seems a lot more grass roots conservative to me.

[jaz.357]

After 8 or 10 BEERS it wont matter...

[WOSG]

IMHO, Times Roman is better fond than courier. Dont know why Courier was chosed as default for latest articles, etc. It uses up more space per letter and is IMHO less readable.

[boris]

Please, for the Nth time...please create an "Environmentalism" and/or "Environment" topic.

[mlmr]

Please give an all threads option. I dont want to be bouncing among forums and I am omniverous.

[Uncle Hal]

Go back to the way it was. This is too confined. Too much wasted space on the left.

[Bob J]

We absolutely, positively need more than 5 items in Breaking news. I dumped all the other item just to see if it would expand...nope.