Links and Styles
Links are one of the most important things when it comes to websites; without them, how would any of it work? If you using the Internet, you are already familiar with links - how did you get here otherwise? However, like many parts of web design, these poor links can be incorrectly and/or badly styled, resulting in a lot of hassle for the poor soul trying to navigate your website.
Links: The General Gist
When creating a link to another page with HTML, the code <a href="#">#</a> is used, replacing the # with the URL and the text to be turned into a link. Simple enough, right?
If one does not apply any styles to their links, the default of blue and underlined can be seen. Against the default background colour of a page - white - it is very obviously a link, now that we know what the convention is.
However, with design being a bigger part of development than it was in the beginning, it is obvious why people would want to style their links to match the theme of their site, as well as not being so stark. The problem, though, lies with those who style their links so much that we cannot see them at all. They must be thinking “Well, I know where my links are - everyone should!”
Read on…
Two Months On
Today is the two-month anniversary of my cat’s death. It’s.. interesting, to say the least. I’m not as sad as I was. Actually, I still am sad, just not all the time. I’ve stopped thinking I’m seeing him outside the door, wanting to be let in as often as I used to. And I don’t cry at night when I’m trying to sleep.
I still miss him, though.
I’m glad that I went crazy with my new digicam before he died - he was what I took pictures of. So now I share them with you.
In other news, I gave blood yesterday. So be nice.