link colors

[Don Lashier]

Very hard to see embedded links. Perhaps it's just the "visited" color but even that should be more prominent. Many folks including myself like to embed links "transparently" without using the URL as the text, and without a more distinct color difference many people will miss these. In fact, I would suggest using the traditional blue/purple for these.

- DL

[Ray West]

Hi Don,

I think you can change the colour of any text - the 'A' in reply box.

I got in a tangle trying this with other html tags - maybe you can do better.

email seems to default to blue in the edit box, but the muddy brown in the real world,

anywher@thisplace.com


another@freds.com

color= has no effect....


I guess you'd tried it. I agree with you


Best wishes,

Ray

[Don Lashier]

I think you can change the colour of any text - the 'A' in reply box. lets try a smilie
http://www.openphotographyforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif


Hi Ray,

Oh, indeed you can. But that's a bit of a pain to have to change them every time :)

- DL

[Ray West]

Hi Don,

seems we're posting at same time - I tried to be a smart ass, and show how you could colour the links, but, I don't think you can. I agrree exactly wrt the pain. Personally I never use html for emails, It's turned off, so I only get plain text. But here, its likely to get very colourful, and could lose its identity.

Blue for links = good, http://www.openphotographyforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon7.gif
other colours for links =bad

Best wishes,

Ray

[Don Lashier]

> Personally I never use html for emails, It's turned off, so I only get plain text.

Me too Ray, in fact my email sig says "Just say no to HTML mail", but even in plain text email links are live and show up blue (at least in my reader).

> Blue for links = good, other colours for links =bad

I don't care if they're blue or not, but you need to be able to spot them. Maybe the issue is that I always set the browser to not underline links as it clutters up the display.

- DL

[Nicolas Claris]

Maybe the issue is that I always set the browser to not underline links as it clutters up the display.
Absolutely
for me your signature is underlined http://www.lashier.com :-)

[Ray West]

Hi Don,

last week, when I joined, I made a number of comments re colour, and I have now forgotten that I turned this to 'NC black text'. (very bottom of page, lhs box) which overcomes a bit of the brown link colour problem.

I've also had my eyes tested - a more expensive option, but essential....

Best wishes,

Ray

[Don Lashier]

Thanks Ray, that helped. But I just noticed that LL underlines links regardless of my browser setting. Perhaps the same is possible with this board?

- DL