On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 02:03:22PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > It's very important the one keep the traditional colors for links and > followed links. See "Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design" > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html, point #8: > > 8. Non-Standard Link Colors > > Links to pages that have not been seen by the user are blue; links to > previously seen pages are purple or red. Don't mess with these colors > since the ability to understand what links have been followed is one > of the few navigational aides that is standard in most web browsers. > Consistency is key to teaching users what the link colors mean. I agree with this. We should play with these colors as little as possible. I specially hate webpages that use the same colour for visited and non-visited links, for example. Joy, what about working on a color layout given the traditional link colours? -- Jordi Mallach Pérez || jordi@pusa.informat.uv.es || Rediscovering Freedom, aka Oskuro in || jordi@sindominio.net || Using Debian GNU/Linux Reinos de Leyenda || jordi@debian.org || http://debian.org http://sindominio.net GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/917A225E telnet pusa.uv.es 23 73ED 4244 FD43 5886 20AC 2644 2584 94BA 917A 225E
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