Re: design update

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 18:49, Charles Goodwin wrote:

> The black links were not embedded in text but only in a menu.  

That doesn't really make much difference... as a first time visitor to a
site, if I discover that some black text turns out to be a link, I'm
going to spend the next five minutes trying all the black text on the
page to see which other bits might be links :)  I've no other way of
knowing what potentially-arbitrary distinctions the designer might have
made between different areas of the page, so I have to spend time trying
to learn the model.

> The links
> in the text are normally-styled links (blue/underlined) or at least they
> should be. ;)

Yeah, they are, although I'm not sure that having two completely
different styles of link on the same page doesn't just add to the
confusion :/  Still, users are invariably surprising, so we'll very
likely discover out I'm totally wrong when it goes live :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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