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Andy B
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|  New Message Posted!2011-10-09 12:29
Just to add that if you are logged in you can edit the site theme yourself to get black and white (Extralite) or all underlines (Megalithic_Classic) so try this if you don't like the links as they are.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/user.php?op=chgtheme
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Andy B
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| New Message Posted!2011-10-09 12:21
It is considered fashionable and 'clean' web design to do away with underline links and just about no one has them any more (have a look at other web sites) but I am aware it can cause usability problems.
The 'standard' these days is that links are blue and you get an underline only when you hover over the link. This doesn't help with mobiles when there is no 'hover' but people still seem to understand that blue text is a link.
Having underlines in some places and not others is something that needs a lot of thought and work to put back the underline links in all the places they would be needed.
We could:
Just underline in a few places would be helpful (where?)
Underline links in news items, forum posts, private messages
Underline all links on the site apart from the side menus
Underline all links (which would be a bit like going back to 1997)
Some of these are a lot of effort to implement. Alternatives could be
We could make our links more 'blue' and obviously like links. They are currently blue-green as I feel the standard 'royal blue' links clash with our unique colour scheme. (I'm not going to ditch the colours for a corporate white and grey like the rest of the bloody boring web sites out there )
Bolding links might help but just bolding all links might look odd so again would need tweaking on individual links which is again a lot of work.
[ This message was edited by: Andy B on 2011-10-09 13:17 ]
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