Re: Hyperlinks giving me the blues!
I agree with Wendy when she says "There are still hundreds of thousands of people who will not recognize a hyperlink unless it is blue and underlined. The question is really not aesthetics, but designing your site in such a way that EVERYONE can recognize your links as what they are."
If your audience is all designers and highly experienced web users, go for the design. But if you also want to target real people, not just consumers but many, many business people who are not web geeks, blue underline is the way to go. And don't frustrate people by underlining non hyperlink text.
A related tip is to find out where people are clicking, using something like CrazyEgg. With one of our clients, we found they were clicking on a certain image. This made us realize that there was something about the image that was drawing their attention, and we should hyperlink the image to a new page that responded to what it appears they were looking for in the image. So in addition to what Wendy said, it never hurts to test.
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