All hyperlinks are now underlined on the Wardman Wire
I had a couple of people who got lost looking for links yesterday (including the one I had left out by mistake), so I have swallowed the bitter design medicine and started underlining all the links. I don’t like the appearance myself, but ease-of-use comes first.
I may make the underlinings slightly less intrusive by making them dotted (compare with the UK edition), and leaving underlinings of links on menus and in the sidebar - but I hope that you find that navigation is now easier (if less beautiful).
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Yeah, blog designs can be a difficult balance of usability and aesthetics. Maybe you can try making the links inside posts a different color than the menu so there is more distinction between the two and hopefully easier to tell that they are links.
Matt,
I wasn’t complaining, the links were not working, so I thought you would want to know.
I am quite happy with your normal ‘clean’ look and the subtle colour difference of the links.
STB.
ps I almost underlined this comment!
Sorry if it sounded as if you were the cause.
I’ve been thinking about it for a bit - it is something that has happened occasionally, and I’m now getting a lot of “one-off” visitors, so I need to stick to the web convention a bit more closely.
I think a half-weight dotted underlining will be better in the body text for links - I just need to do some grubbing around in the compost heap that is my stylesheet to turn off all the others.
It is less pretty, but certainly easier to use!
I subscribe to your RSS feed but…. waaaaagh! No! The underlining looks bad. It looked better before. Put in an accessibility button with a CSS script changer if you must - have a look at the CSS Zen Garden.
Dave
I’ll look at that - but you’ll have to put up with this for a few days. Sorry.
btw - Twittering headlines now.
If you are desperate, try mattwardman.co.uk. It carries all my articles, but not all of the columns.
Tomorrow, try m.mattwardman.com/blog/ for the mobile version.