"Leather-Guy, please define 'usable', Renderosity could turn everything white and set all text at #f0f0f0 and the site would still be errr... 'usable'?" Usable to me means I can find everything I look for. Can't think of any definition more relevant to my needs. I've already adjusted the primary text and background colors twice until I'm comfortable with them for now. Some color scheme has to be the default. black-on-white seems to have motivated a lot of members to explore other options. Bit of a shock to many, but change is only change. Personally I prefer a dark green text on a yellow-beige background for my screen settings and the lighting in my office. Not to everybody's taste. Cost me all of 5 minutes and a couple of screen-refreshes to do it. Professional web-design aesthetics are one thing. Most seem to follow what they feel to be trendy and cool. Average end-users are what really determines real design appeal. I've lost track of how many "professionally designed" web pages I've closed in disgust over the mindless "trendy over all" and "because I CAN!" mentality. A dozen or two members here seem to feel strongly about the changes. Overwhelming majority seem to be dealing with it, or giving it a while to sink in. I'm inclined to do the same, except I'm saying so. I'm just glad my preference of link-column-on-the-right is still available. If THAT had changed I might have squawked myself. Not meaning to be contentious, opposing views expected and encouraged. Cheers!