Re: Hyperlinks giving me the blues!
A blue underlined link has been the standard way of determining where a hyper link is on a page for many, many years. It is familiar to users - and familiar is good. I don't think it should be a "guess where the link is on the web page" game. Same-coloured hyperlinks as the text colour on the page won't fool me, but could fool others. And even on a "tech" site - IMO, I'd still stick to what works.
The only exceptions I'd make is if the client wants a "shade" of background colour or an actual image background. And even then I'd make it a 10% opacity if necessary and try to talk them out of the image if it interferes with the page verbiage. I have gone with up to a 10-15% colour on any page, again making sure it doesn't take away from the text.
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