DU <dr*******@hotWIPETHISmail.com> wrote in message news:<cd**********@news.eusc.inter.net>...
I did that for the pseudo classes and I also did that for the image
tag. Yet there are still link lines around the images. Why?
Again, how are your visitors going to recognize, to distinguish
clickable images from non-clickable links? What you are trying to do
goes against usability of a web page.
The default value of links in browsers is to underline links and to
create a blue color (again, that's a browser default in most browsers)
border around clickable images. Going against such browser standards is
often risky, not recommendable; at least it requires careful thinking to
avoid creating usability confusion.
But lots of sites uses images for links, and that is what this site is
doing. And the site owner didn't want ugly blue lines around her
images.
www.mamacitta.com
Lots of sites uses images; some are clickable links and some are not.
How are users going to distinguish, differentiate them *easily* without
having to examine the source code? That is what matters here. Clear
navigation aids have been exhaustively discussed before in website
tutorials and newsgroup discussions. Users don't want to spend a split
second on figuring out if this image or that one is clickable and if it
opens a new window, etc... A webpage design should be user-friendly on this.
Uglyness of borders around an image could be quite subjective here. For
sure such issue should be secondary to usability of a webpage/site.
I find that website owners that are going to do a good bit of the work
of building their sites tend to learn a lot in the first few weeks.
Experience is the best teacher. There are certain lessons that they
don't learn easily from the designer they are working with, but learn
easily from experience itself. They also take feedback from friends
better than they take feedback from me. Many times I've said "That
won't work" and they think I'm being obstinate, so I go ahead and do
it as they request. 6 weeks later their close friend tells them they
find the site confusing - then they ask me to make the change I
suggested 6 weeks before. Personally, I don't view the learning curve
of a client as something negative - it's just something that is there,
something that needs to be worked with. They need to be given time to
learn things.
The site I pointed to is uniquely bad because images are reused for
different links, something I've never seen done on any other website.
So what? Within 2 weeks, one of the clients business partners will
very likely say to her "You've got to be kidding!" And then the site
will be made right.