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Foamcow Heavy Industries - Web design and ranting
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<head>
.... stuff you normally put in the head of an HTML doc ...
<style type="text/css">
a {
color:red;
text-decoration:none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
... stuff you put in the body of an html doc ...
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sysadmin42
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- May 6, 2005
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you might not need my 2 cents, but for what it's worth, I've found that it's important to be careful when changing the color of your links. Sure, it might match the design better and look cool, but to the general public, it becomes harder to navigate. People get used to looking for "blue" links and many times ignore any other underlined text.
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sysadmin42 ... The other thing is other underlined and/or blue text will have some users clicking at it a little trying to follow a link.
In general, blue underline is best. If it HAS to be something else then make sure links need to have at least 2 attributes to seperate them from other text. Read: color change and bold, color and italics, ect.
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In general, blue underline is best. If it HAS to be something else then make sure links need to have at least 2 attributes to seperate them from other text. Read: color change and bold, color and italics, ect.
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BillyRayPreachersSon
Programmer
Saying that links "should be blue and underlined" because "that is what people are used to" isn't really a good way to think about web design.
Yes - links need to stand out to be obvious, but design is also important. As long as they are obvious, it should not, and does not matter what colour they are.
Really... if all sites used the default "blue" colour, with underlines for links, we'd be seeing some pretty ugly sites out there.
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Yes - links need to stand out to be obvious, but design is also important. As long as they are obvious, it should not, and does not matter what colour they are.
Really... if all sites used the default "blue" colour, with underlines for links, we'd be seeing some pretty ugly sites out there.
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