[WEB4LIB] Re: specific request on HTML coding re: colour of underline

[Samuel Mcdonald]

I agree with Hanan, however, as I understood it the goal was to make
something that looked like a button and worked like a button..therefore
functionally is a button.  Using a trick like this has a bit of merit as
text browsers etc. should do fine with it.  The only caveat that I can
think of is that if a user clicks on the 'button', but not ON the text
they will get no result.

I would have say that instead of using the CSS as I wrote before, I would
work up the small learning curve of Paint Shop Pro (very carefully
document ing the RGB colors, fonts style etc. so buttons can be changed (I
have had to redo whole sets as I did not document.)  or use the service
mentioned before.

-Sam



On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Hanan Cohen wrote:

> >From a usability point of view, links without underlines are very bad.
> Read more about it in :  Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design revisited
> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990502.html
> See no. 8 in the table:  Non-standard link colors
> 
> If you are "graphically challanged" <grin> you can use an online site
> that prepares text buttons for you.
> Here is one:
> http://www.3dtextmaker.com/
> 
> Good luck
> 
> -- 
> Hanan Cohen - http://www.info.org.il
> ***Love and Peace***
> 

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