As referenced in an earlier post, I’ve been preoccupied lately with filling out belated loan applications to cover this year’s tuition. While accessing a promissory note, I encountered a particularly bad design:
I go through all this trouble to log in, and this is what I get! Where do I click for my promissory note? Any ideas? No instructions around, nothing that indicates promissory note on the page. Well, apparently, this site indicates links with bold text rather than underlines or colors. I won’t dwell on this, so I’ll come right out and say it: Bold text doesn’t work for links! Every logical person uses bold text for some sort of emphasis, which is why they aren’t used for links! Gah!
um… dude, even your blog doesn’t underline links. it uses bold and a very slight color disctinction.
egg on you!@
;D ave
Ah Dave, good for you for keeping me honest. Finding a color with greater contrast has been on my to do list for a while, since the template colors are kinda bland (especially the visited colors - ick).
However, the content links do use hover-based underlining and color distinction, whereas the example I mentioned specifically took away color distinction and underlining to use bold as the only method of contrast. I just don’t think bold has much precedence as a link (except as a redundant cue when used for titles, which, you’re right, my blog does use).