[WEB4LIB] Re: curious web design

[Eric (Eric Rogers)]

What Would Jakob Do?

He has also written that he believes bright blue underlining was probably
the worst choice for hyperlinks, at least from a readability standpoint.  

Non-underlining may go against common practice, but sometimes change is good
in the long term even if it is confusing in the short term.  Many major
sites have moved towards not underlining hyperlinks, but rather using font
color and weight along with a hover color to signify their function.  For
example, Microsoft, or the BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk), where you will
notice that the links change to red when hovered over (with IE 4-5 or
Mozilla/Netscape 5).

-- 
Eric Rogers
Internet Services Administrator, Kansas City Public Library
mailto:eric at kclibrary.org - http://www.kclibrary.org 




-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Mutch [mailto:amutch at waterford.lib.mi.us]
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 2:23 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: curious web design


On issues of web design, I usually defer to the WWJD principle:

What Would Jakob Do?
[Nielsen that is!]
;)

He frowns on those kinds of changes because they ignore web "standards" thus
confusing visitors.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

Jacqueline N Loop/LOO/LMITCO/INEEL/US wrote:

> I've seen links done this way before, but I don't like it.  You lose those
> precious few seconds trying to
> figure out where the hyperlink is!  8-)
> If 'twas me, I'd link both the graphic & the text.
>
> On a related note, I've noticed some programming where the hyperlink is
not
> underlined - something
> to do with the style tag, I'm assuming.  I find this confusing, but maybe
> that shows I'm old-fashioned.
> Is non-underlined hyperlinking the wave of the future?
>
> Jackie Loop
> loo at inel.gov