Re: [boost] [website] When will the new website be ready?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-10 09:04:23

Nigel Stewart <ns_at_[hidden]> writes:

>>>>> I realize this is rather trivial, but can you please use a standard
>>>>> underline rather than the "bottom border" stuff you are currently using
>>>>> for link styling?
>>>> Why?
>>> Well, my reason is that I like it better.
>> For what it's worth, I feel a little uneasy about the links myself.
>
>      The link styles seem a bit excessive to me, but it is
>      innovative, maybe I could get used to it, or even
>      find it a plus, eventually. :-)

It's the innovation that worries me.  I really feel for Rene in this
process, as I think the link style game is an impossible one to win:
links have to be perfectly invisible when reading the text so they
don't distract from the content and cause emphasis of words that
aren't meant to be emphasized, but they have to scream "notice me"
when the user is scanning the page for places to click.  Given that, I
think the best thing we can hope for is a style that's so
commonly-used that it is unremarkable and it just "flies beneath the
radar."

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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