Re: Hyperlinks giving me the blues!
Yes, unless you're designing for a very specialist audience, un-visited hyperlinks should be blue and should be underlined - at least when the mouse hovers over them.
It's not a good idea to make links "bold" on "hover": This can force all the other text shuffle to provide the extra room.
Many, many years ago after reading a convincing article by a keen (paper) "designer," I changed all un-visited links to Red - as "a call to action"; and all visited links to a more subdued colour.
The result caused so much confusion that I quickly changed all the links back to the conventional colours.
Two final points:
1. People with some eye problems have great difficulty reading underlined text.
2. The web-browsers on my PCs have "user style sheets" or modified "chrome" which override "designer" colours on web-pages: Pages are displayed with my choice of fonts, sizes and colours. So, I never see people's clever effects.
Richard
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