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orrd
Starting Member
USA
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 Posted - 07 September 2014 : 17:46:26
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I know this has been brought up before, but it still remains unfixed and is an issue on several websites that use the Snitz forum default colors.
The normal color for visited links since the very early days of the web have always been dark blue/purple, while not visited links are a lighter blue color. Anyone who uses the web on a regular basis is aware of this. Some sites do change the link colors, but almost always follow the convention of making visited links *darker* than not visited links. Many Snitz Forum installations have this exactly reversed (including this one) which causes a lot of confusion for users.
It's ok to use different colors for links if it's a necessary part of the design of a site, but choosing to purposely do it exactly backwards seems to be intentionally misleading for users and is endlessly frustrating.
A couple references about this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_color
http://flylib.com/books/en/2.30.1.14/1/
"Your visitors already know from experience that blue stands for an unvisited link, so, if they can fall back on this knowledge when they come to your site, you give them one less usability hurdle."
Please, please change fix the default color scheme. Obviously they were accidentally mixed up when the scheme was first created, and no one has taken the time to fix this usability issue. Usability is important, please take the time to fix this. |
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11 September 2014 : 13:14:17
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orrd, just because you post the same thing for 5 years doesn't mean we will change our position, there is NO standard for these colours in HTML, it is entirely up to the browser how it handles default links and they vary from browser to browser.
Also think about when content at a site is ever-changing: what does it mean to tell a user they have been to a particular URL previously, when the page that appears at that location could well have changed, it is meaningless |
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