Looks good but the colors are a bit dull/mundane/blah.
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Are you referring to the photos? If so, then it is either your browser settings or your monitor. I use a wide gamut monitor for photo editing and the colors all seem quite vivid to me.
Depending on your browser, some such as Firefox ae able to recognize embedded image color profiles, but you must enable the feature. Otherwise, all that you will see are the typical web color gamut. One note about that though -- if your monitor has a limited color gamut capability (typical of many LCD TN laptop and low cost desktop screens), then enabling color awareness in your browser won't gain you much, if anything. Other things that can make photos appear drab are monitor contrast and brightness not set correctly (contrast too low or brightness too high). Most people usually use their monitors for both word processing and other office use as well as looking at color images -- when the screen is adjusted for general purpose use, the brightness is typically a bit too high for photos to look their best. One other problem area in color images is that many monitor come with a preset white point of 9500K. That is really too high for a photo to look its best. Most monitors allow at least three settings for the white point: 5000K, 6500K, and 9500K. The highest setting of 9500K help to sell monitors because it makes them look bright by adding an excess of blue to the color. A color temperature setting of 6500K is a very good all around setting and works well for photos. The lowest color temperature of 5000K is the closest to true daylight white, but most people consider it to look too dull and yellowish. Mostly, only photo editing professionals doing serious editing work where they are critically matching colors use that setting. I tried it once and didn't see a need to use it bwecause there are other better ways than messing with the monitor white point to match colors.
Bill, referring to the colors on the website itself; photos are great. The blue/gray tones just don't get it. Rather colorless- sort of like a hospital room.
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OK, you've got something against hospitals -- or having to stay in one. 😉 I don't think it's the colors as much as the thoughts that it brings up. Personally, I am so glad that they got rid of the pukey yellow and orange that anything else is wonderful. I've noticed that these new colors seem to be very popular currently.
Anyway, if the colors are the only thing to complain about then I think that they have done a really great job with the new web site.