Embedded Link Font Colour

[Rexx]

The embedded link colour for the text is too subtle a colour difference from the standard black text colour. A lot of new users would have trouble telling the difference between this and this and realizing the significance of the slight colour difference. If the font colour was cyan or magenta it would be clearer that an embedded link is in the text.

[Thanis Kartaleon]

I dunno... it catches *my* eye...

[The White Toymaker]

I generally go through a bit of a "hey, that sentence was weird... oh, linky!" thought process when a particularly subtle link comes up, otherwise it's generally obvious that there ought to be a link somewhere. If the links must change color I'd suggest just making it a bluer blue, rather than cyan (which would be difficult to read on a white background) or magenta (which would look garish placed next to the otherwise black and blue text of these boards.)

[jthilo]

Rexx wrote:

A lot of new users would have trouble telling the difference between this and this

At least one old user as well!

Not all displays are calibrated equally, nor all eyes for that matter. In some combinations of eyes + viewing conditions (including my own), the site's style for embedded links is indeed too subtle, as you say.

I asked about this a month ago. No response, so I took matters into my own hands. As a Firefox user, my overrides can override Paizo's overrides. :-) I put the following into my userContent.css:

a:link, a:visited, a:active, a:hover { text-decoration: underline !important; }

Now all links are always underlined, regardless of what the site specifies. I could have made this a little more complicated and have it affect only links in certain places on paizo.com, but I didn't feel it was worth the effort. Problem solved on my end.

PostMonster General, might you at least consider not suppressing the underlining of links in the text of messageboard posts, news, etc.? This has made a world of difference for me.

[Gary Teter]

I meant to reply to this (and jthilo's original post), but I have been exceedingly busy working on other things.

This really should be a per-user preference, and I intend to (eventually) make it so. For now, using your browser preferences to override is the way to go.

[Rexx]

jthilo wrote:

I asked about this a month ago. No response, so I took matters into my own hands. As a Firefox user, my overrides can override Paizo's overrides. :-) I put the following into my userContent.css:

a:link, a:visited, a:active, a:hover { text-decoration: underline !important; }

Now all links are always underlined, regardless of what the site specifies. I could have made this a little more complicated and have it affect only links in certain places on paizo.com, but I didn't feel it was worth the effort. Problem solved on my end.

Just what my old eyes needed. Thanks, jthilo.

[jthilo]

Gary Teter wrote:

I meant to reply to this (and jthilo's original post), but I have been exceedingly busy working on other things.

No worries.

Gary Teter wrote:

This really should be a per-user preference, and I intend to (eventually) make it so. For now, using your browser preferences to override is the way to go.

The only problem with browser preferences (using the "typical" interface) is that sometimes it's all or nothing. I already had Firefox configured to underline links (which is the default setting) but your site's style took precedence, as it should. I could set it to ignore all page color settings, but that's too extreme. That's why I had to dig into the user style sheet. It wasn't hard to do, but it did require knowledge of CSS and Firefox configuration files, which is not something every casual user will have.

Rexx wrote:

Just what my old eyes needed. Thanks, jthilo.

Glad I could help!