http://www.meryl.net/2005/11/28/links-line-through-and-colors/ Content on writing, tech, business, marketing, social media Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:03:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.meryl.net/2005/11/28/links-line-through-and-colors/comment-page-1/#comment-864 Eric TF Bat Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:20:39 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2005/11/28/links-line-through-and-colors/#comment-864 <p>Current version of my site (which is slightly broken) uses bold dark blue with no underline for all links, but my long-overdue redesign will be more polite. Nowadays I encourage leaving links unstyled: people are used to blue underlined for unvisited links and purple underlined for visited links; it's just confusing to change it. It's like restyling buttons to look like abstract icons; very un-Nielsen.</p> Current version of my site (which is slightly broken) uses bold dark blue with no underline for all links, but my long-overdue redesign will be more polite. Nowadays I encourage leaving links unstyled: people are used to blue underlined for unvisited links and purple underlined for visited links; it’s just confusing to change it. It’s like restyling buttons to look like abstract icons; very un-Nielsen.

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