[jber]

Thanks for your feedback. Better now?

[rpedela]

The darker red is definitely better, but generally red is a bad color to use excessively. Plenty of studies have shown that red can invoke the fight or flight response and increase stress.

[loceng]

Maybe that's what they're going for. :P

[jber]

Not at all ;-) What color do you suggest ? ;-)

[johnnyo]

Even the new red is painful on my eyes. I navigated away before I finished reading, and when coming back here, it still created an afterimage on my retina.

I recommend a much more muted background, especially for the textual portion of the site. Run red banners down the side if you must, but change the text section to a more readable contrast.

[web007]

More of a neutral background would be a good start, something like the Kima Ventures site where white-on-red is used as a bold title versus the whole page text.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/28/color-theory-for-... is the knockoff answer, but you should get the input of an actual designer - I've used yellow-on-red AND the <blink> tag before, both at the same time.

[jacalata]

Don't have the whole page one background color - use it as either side panels as suggested below, or as a focal element like this: http://imgur.com/hwsUhKI

[valvoja]

New red is much better. Red wine instead of ketchup.

[zhuzhuor]

Thanks. It's much better for me now

[danielharan]

Still difficult for me to read.