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amillia

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What is an easy way to change the color of my hyperlinks. It is defaulting to blue and I need white and gray. Thank you for your help.
 
use css- and the forum search -- this topic is brought up every 3 or 4 posts.

Listen All I ask is that You close out a Post You Started!!!!
 
and its widely unpopular to do most people want their links standard colour, im sure its in the top 5 of the web design mistakes.
 
i doubt that one noellees -- i change all my links -- in fact most sites change their links to fit their design.

I would like proof you might have to changing links colors is a major mistake.

zzzzzz
 
years ago i printed off some web design info it said that link colour changing was a big mistake.
I see what you mean even tek-tips change their link colour.
Just remember reading it off something!
 
possibly "usability" guru Jakob Neilsen

but in reality a lot of Jakob Neilsen's stuff assumes that 90% of users are still in 1995 and have absolutely no idea that the world has moved on. (NN4 users)
I change all my links to suit the site design and providing you stick to some general principles and are consistent in your approach there should be no problem.
as deecee says use CSS, it's what it was designed for.



Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
 
Using Dreamweaver go to Modify>Page properties and set the colours there.

Cheech

[Peace][Pipe]
 
Thank you Cheech that is what I was looking for.
 
this applies to ALL links on the current page....should u desire diff. colors for eg. nav and diff. for content links...u need CSS.


> need more info?
:: don't click HERE ::
 
two different link colors on the same page
thread248-791903

> need more info?
:: don't click HERE ::
 
youre fighting a loosing battle leb!

zzzzzz
 
I know we can make recomendations that CSS is a better means of achieving the objective.

Sometimes though we can be guilty of forgetting that users of the forums may just want the simple GUI solution. Which is why I posted the above as an extra to the excellent CSS answer.

Cheech

[Peace][Pipe]
 
hey, I just try to leave the possiblities open....what is "enough" for the solution is their choice... :-)
All the best!

> need more info?
:: don't click HERE ::
 
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