[thelist] Re: site check/advice please

[Daniel Medley]

Concerning Carol Stein's input about
http://www.lobowalk.com/chezbetty/home.html :

Carol,
Agreeing with you that the blue color (menu link) seemed to be a bit
non-congruent I've been experimenting with making it a bold brown color with
a similar hover to the links in the nav-bar. Or, perhaps, I could just make
it a bold black. Hmm.. food for thought.  I'm wondering what thoughts are
about not changing colors for visited inline links.

Thank you for taking the time to offer your advice,
Daniel

> One suggestion: I know blue is the "normal" link color for unvisited,
> but
> [1] you've already got those black ones in your nav bar (nice hover,
> effect, too), and
> [2] the site is so unconfusing, I think a user can easily absorb a
> LITTLE new (nonstandard) information!
> So why not make your link ("the menu") the same color as the background
> while it's unvisited, and perhaps black (like the nav bar links) for
> visited? Having unvisited links brighter (redder) than visited links
> does make sense at a deeper level than the old and much
> ignored "convention" of red for visited/blue for unvisited, and your
> muted orange color seems quite attractive. On the other hand, I haven't
> seen what I'm suggesting, so perhaps you'll need a slightly brighter
> shade to show up clearly against the white.