Watch Those Underlines!

Friday, February 15th, 2002 at 9:25 AM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog 1 comment

Ordinary-Life.net caught an interface boo boo on Amazon. [Link from ElegantHack]

Meanwhile, I’ve seen on some sites NO distinguishing marks for links and end up moving my mouse pointer all over the page trying to find the links. Watch your links!

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  • Posted by NJ Meryl on February 15th, 2002, 1:21 PM

    Yeah, it can be aggravating, but it can also be a nice style design. The best of both worlds are the no-underline links that have javascript rollovers, so they change color or size when you put your mouse on them. But they really should be easily identifiable. For instance, make all links the same color, and never use that color anywhere else on your site. And make sure that color stands out.

    I think it’s also pretty acceptable to remove the underlining in what is obviously a menu. For example: “About | Site Map | Home | Mission Statement” –you’d have to be a complete intenet idiot not to realize those are links, so sure, you can remove the underline there.

    But you do need to use common sense, and Amazon sure didn’t.

    By the way, I’ve learned all of these things the old-fashioned way. By screwing up first.

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