Comments on: Underline or not to underline links?

By: seoguy

seoguy — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:16:42 +0000

Of course (everything for backlink)

By: Reader

Reader — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:08:51 +0000

Wow! Thank you!
I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my site?
Of course, I will add backlink?

Regards, Reader

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:41:18 +0000

Great article. In situations where underlining looks too messy, I have used border-bottom instead of underline. With this technique you can make the text underlined, but at a lighter shade for example. In general though, default blue underlined text is what the society has grown up with, so that’s what they will click on instinctively.

By: Gordan

Gordan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:08:36 +0000

I also like to underling to point that there is a link behind text. but sometimes it makes article and text in it a little “fuzzy” because underlines are getting more attention (blue color) then regular words

By: Pasquale Festa

Pasquale Festa — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:00:20 +0000

In general, underlining is a good way to go. However, what I like to do is use a font color that stands out from the plain text for links (which I leave non-underlined) and have them underline on mouse over. This helps keep the text design clean, adds enough difference to signal the text as a link, and validates the user’s assumption when they mouse over. I think it’s a good compromise between the two.

By: Geoserv

Geoserv — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:23:01 +0000

STUMBLED!

Good post, I prefer to underline, as it makes it clear to the user that it is a link.