Although I prefer to keep all of my text links (Normal, Visited, Hover, Active) the same color throughout the site, there are times when certain elements require different colored link for visibility purposes.
Case in point. Some of my pages have colored inline boxes with white text. What are your thoughts on white text links? Should they simply be underlines or is there a better, more visually pleasing solution?
Also, are underlines still the universally accepted technique for identifying links?
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Good question.
I usually try to find a color that is “acceptable” for both dark and white backgrounds (if the color fits to the rest design).
Orange (like this example http://www.g4tv.com/ or a blue are acceptable on both backgrounds.
Another practice could be to make them white, but make them “button like” and pick the same color as the general links on a light background.
Not a spectacular article (cause I do not know “best”) but maybe some inspirations on:
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Thomas
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Good info Thomas. Thank you. BTW, I was told many years ago by a seasoned website designer that you should never use “Click Here” in any good website design. Unfortunately, I haven’t completely been able to follow that rule. 
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Hm - the ‘click here’ is indeed indicating a jump into the cold water which depth is unknown. It is furthermore dedicated for a counterquestion like ‘why?’
Really interesting - and another “never thought about” - especially associated with a resource that you like to point to.
More infos are available if you click here (uahhh)
The “Read more” is probably the more reasonable term.
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Anything that should be seen should have enough contrast to be seen…
applies to links or text
There is a difference between background-image and background-color. If
your text is light against a dark background-image, but your
background-color is light, then should for some reason the images fail to
load but the styles do, then your text is hard to read.
My personal opinion is that links need some clue ( even if a subtle one )
to let people know what they are or do. Otherwise your page can be a puzzle
to users.
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Ernie Simpson
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:19 AM, RavenManiac email@hidden wrote:
Although I prefer to keep all of my text links (Normal, Visited, Hover,
Active) the same color throughout the site, there are times when certain
elements require different colored link for visibility purposes.
Case in point. Some of my pages have colored inline boxes with white text.
What are your thoughts on white text links? Should they simply be
underlines or is there a better, more visually pleasing solution?
Also, are underlines still the universally accepted technique for
identifying links?
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On 12 Apr 2013, 2:59 pm, The Big Erns wrote:
My personal opinion is that links need some clue ( even if a subtle one )
to let people know what they are or do. Otherwise your page can be a puzzle
to users.
Agreed. That’s one of the reasons why I was asking if underlined text is still the universally accepted indicator of links? If so, I’ll simply stick with that method of styling.
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I usually ditch the text-decoration underline in favor of the border-bottom
property where you can also set the color and thickness and style of the
resulting “underline”.
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Ernie Simpson
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:35 AM, RavenManiac email@hiddenwrote:
On 12 Apr 2013, 2:59 pm, The Big Erns wrote:
My personal opinion is that links need some clue ( even if a subtle one )
to let people know what they are or do. Otherwise your page can be a
puzzle
to users.
Agreed. That’s one of the reasons why I was asking if underlined text is
still the universally accepted indicator of links? If so, I’ll simply stick
with that method of styling.
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I’ve got two similar threads and perhaps the answer is in the other one, but how would I implement what you are suggesting?
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