What do you thin of my new What's on site - www.CraicOn.com

[cojak]

Hmm - I pondered that one on my website, when I looked at other sites it seemed to be 50/50 on the underlined links.

I'm torn between accessibility and colour-blindness issues.

Do I lose the underlines and make the links bold?

[ITContractor]

I've been advise on my various sites to keep that as it shows people easily what can be clicked on.

Remember that the people reading CraicOn would not be highly computer literate.

[Sockpuppet]

Hmm - I pondered that one on my website, when I looked at other sites it seemed to be 50/50 on the underlined links.

I'm torn between accessibility and colour-blindness issues.

Do I lose the underlines and make the links bold?

a { text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; }

[Stan]

I've been advise on my various sites to keep that as it shows people easily what can be clicked on.

Thoroughly agree there, not sure why people are so keen to make it hard to see hyperlinks when that is what makes the web what it is.

[OliH]

...and why are you doing this?
O.

[ITContractor]

Who was that addressed to OliH?

[One Nihilist]

Now, I think your site looks grand as it is....

[realityhack]

I'm curious to know why all your links are absolute - is there a reason for this?
Also - from a user-centric design pov, I'd be inclined to structure the main page differently - having one-three main news articles and providing a link to an archive, split by months, then taking the left-hand nav across to the middle using more screen real estate - the homepage is too 'vertical'.

Not really fussed about underlining links. If you chose not to it would make the site feel less cluttered, and so long as you adhered to the same style for all links, and had the underline on hover, it wouldn't be a usability problem.

I haven't run it through visicheck but I'm pretty sure it would fail a colour contrast/brightness test.

Otherwise quite a good community noticeboard. Would be enhanced by a forum.

[Bagpuss]

Gerry, Where has the ccnet forum gone?

[ITContractor]

Gerry, Where has the ccnet forum gone?

It has been hacked. My host / site builder is looking into it. There's some kind of flake out there who keeps trying to cause trouble. Presuming its the same person he had been posting animal porn previously. He spends quite a lot of time trying to screw it up.

One wishes he would get himself a life.