[Sigia-l] quick survey: standard link styles, or "what makes a link look li ke a link?"

[Eric Scheid]

From: Dan Hill <dan.hill at bbc.co.uk> (12/4/02 7:00)

>some thoughts (some with a devil's advocate flavour!):
>[side bar nav links]
>[body text links]
>[etc]

Something implied by your examples is treating links differently 
according to *purpose*. It is conceivable that there could be a link in 
the body text which simply loads up an otherwise definition or other 
trivial/minor content ... that link could/should be formatted differently 
from a link which is integral to the body text (eg. "the foo website 
[link] is blah blah").

Typically, different link purposes are represented by different 
mini-icons: a popup icon, an icon representing external website, and PDF 
icon, a downwards arrow icon representing deeper content, etc. See 
http://www.communication.org.au/html/papers_to_read.html for some 
examples.

e.

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