[WEB4LIB] Re: curious web design

[Margaret F. Dikel]

At 02:25 PM 02/15/2000 -0800, Andrew Mutch wrote:

>Seriously, to quote Mr. Nielsen:
>"Blue text means "click here" on the Web, so by keeping unvisited links blue,
>there is no doubt in users' minds as to what they can do. The time they
save by
>knowing what to do on a page is probably much bigger than the time they
lose by
>having the few words in the hypertext anchors be a few milliseconds slower to
>read."
>[http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991114.html]

In this vein, one of my greatest pet peeves is the use of the same standard
blue text in other parts of the text without changing the default color of the
links.   

Blue blue everywhere, but find which one to click...

Margaret


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