[thelist] Links and visited links

Joel Canfield joel at spinhead.com
Thu Nov 15 11:40:39 CST 2012


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Nan Harbison <nan at nanharbison.com> wrote:

> So what about links in the other parts of content on pages? It was pretty
> standard at one point (I think) to have the link be a different color if it
> had already been visited. But I don't think I see that any more in
> websites,
> even though some purchased/free designs do have the visited color be
> different.
>

I handle primary navigation differently. I don't think there's value in
telling someone "you've already been to my contact page before."

Links in content, though, should make visited and unvisited links obvious.

joel


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