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Well I agree that using blue text other than for links is a big no-no but I think the days when visitors expected links to be blue and underlined are well gone. If anything it's indicative that no-one has cared for the site since IE3 days - think back when did you last visit a professional looking site that had underlined blue hyperlinks?  
 
Well I agree that using blue text other than for links is a big no-no but I think the days when visitors expected links to be blue and underlined are well gone. If anything it's indicative that no-one has cared for the site since IE3 days - think back when did you last visit a professional looking site that had underlined blue hyperlinks?  
There are many other ways that hyperlinks can be mnade easily identifiable: the only use of a different strongly contrasting colour; using mouseovers such as the title tag so "click here for the map" appears; etc etc
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There are many other ways that hyperlinks can be made easily identifiable: the only use of a different strongly contrasting colour; using mouseovers such as the title tag so "click here for the map" appears; etc etc
  
 
Jeff
 
Jeff

Revision as of 22:43, 10 November 2005

Well I agree that using blue text other than for links is a big no-no but I think the days when visitors expected links to be blue and underlined are well gone. If anything it's indicative that no-one has cared for the site since IE3 days - think back when did you last visit a professional looking site that had underlined blue hyperlinks? There are many other ways that hyperlinks can be made easily identifiable: the only use of a different strongly contrasting colour; using mouseovers such as the title tag so "click here for the map" appears; etc etc

Jeff