[WEB4LIB] Re: curious web design

[Dennis Moser]

A curious trend, indeed, given the relative lack of traditional typographic
sophistication exhibited by most websites that one encounters. Gee, what a
concept: draw attention to some text by making it bold...or italic...or a
different color. What _would_ Bodoni do (Or Garamond? Or that reprobate,
Aldus Manutius, he of the italic?)?

Feeling a little cranky about the whole thing this afternoon (I LIKE the
little blue globes!),

Dennis Moser, MILS, Web Librarian
John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center
Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library
1133 M. D. Anderson Blvd, Houston, TX 77030-2809
dennism at library.tmc.edu

"That so few now dare to be eccentric,
marks the chief danger of the time."
~~~ John Stuart Mill



-----Original Message-----
From: Eric (Eric Rogers) <eric at kclibrary.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 4:19 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: curious web design


>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
>