The Joomla! link is one way to give something back to Joomla! for providing a totally
FREE product, did you not get paid for creating your clients website? Or did you offer a discount for the branding and marketing links your clients are providing you with?
Signature links at forums etc. are provided to members as a "thank you" gesture or on "quid pro quo" basis for providing content and material for the forum and/or for giving up the time to answer questions. The signature link is the "payment" for that.
And yes there are many many times where "hidden" links and text are used as a legitimate design features, tabbed layouts, CSS "drop down" menus. However "spam" is not the action, it is the INTENT with which it is done, which is something
I have said a few times before.
There are a couple of forums that I participate where I do not have a signature link, simply because I do not feel that my infrequent participation does not give me the right to expect a return gesture from there.
For a paid work the copyright is not yours, neither should it be your given right to expect 'backlinks' from your clients property.
A real world scenario would be like an Estate Agent (Realtors) leaving a "Sold By" sign permanently on the property.
Chris.
Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
Time flies like an arrow, however, fruit flies like a banana.
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