Basic Web Page Three
Linking

Table of Contents:

• Understand our Previous Work
• Points to Consider

Understand the Work of the Previous Pages

1. Basic Web Pages One
2. Basic Web Pages Two

Points to consider in linking webpages

What do your links look like?

• How important is it that links are underlined?
• There are default colors for visited links and unvisited links. Are these good colors?
• Netmechanic advises using the default link colors.
• Kristopher Bonhoffer really hates non-standard link colors.
• If using non-standard colors, make unvisited links bright, and visited links dull.
• David Siegel likes using the hot color red for unvisited links.
• On this FS101 page, I used some CSS Cascading Style Sheet code to change link colors and get rid of underlining. Is this a problem?
• Can't you tell where links are by moving your mouse cursor over the page?
• Different browsers treat links differently. Consider the idea of hover color (in IE), and active links (Netscape) by looking at the Raymond P. Shafer site.
• Web Pages That Suck is really pissed off about the concept of Hidden Links!

What do you link?

On his Web Wonk site, David Siegel recommends non-standard links colors.

See http://www.dsiegel.com/tips/wonk3/links.html

Click here for Web Pages That Suck

The idea of hidden links is found on the Alan Parsons Fan Club Page, and was featured as a Web Pages That Suck Sucker of the Day for February 2, 2001. It illustrates the concept of Mystery Meat Navigation (MMN).

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Posted on February 4, 2001.
Author is Amelia Carr, acarr@allegheny.edu