Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

[Patrick McCarty]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Patrick Horgan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Thanks, it let me get a good look at it.  All in all, so far I prefer
> Patrick's except for unvisited links.  It's not obvious enough that they are
> something to click on until I hover.  The color is so close to the color of
> the normal text, (Firefox 3 on Linux), that even the font difference isn't
> enough to tell.  Jacob Nielson's guidelines are based on extensive usability
> studies with experienced and non-experienced web users.  They really make a
> difference.  Note that he says that you don't necessarily have to underline
> if the color difference is noticable enough, but that you should never
> underline anything else on a web page because people think that denotes a
> link.  He also says never use blue text even if that's not your link color
> because people expect blue text to be clickable.

Hi Patrick,

If you have any suggestions for different colors in any part of my
design, please post them.  I am not very knowledgable with color
theory (yet).

Regarding the link underlining, this is still under debate, and I'm undecided.

Thanks for your comments,

-Patrick