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Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:40:03 +0100
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Joe Grant wrote:
> Could you share some examples of well-done graphical links?
>
> I especially would like to see some that:
>
> - clearly convey they are indeed links (not just images)
> - clearly convey that they have not yet been visited
> - clearly convey that they have have been visited
> - do not require rollovers or other mouse action to be understood
>   to do the first 3 criteria

Also:
> - clearly convey some kind of hierarchy, priority, or relevance to
>   the particular content of the page
> - convey some kind of hierarchy or priority across the site or sub-site

This is a different list of attributes than I covered in my
message but I don't think the list is unreasonable.

I don't know of a single site that does everything I talked about
in my message plus everything in the above list and so I have done
a two-part response, using a combination of HTML text links and
graphics.  I've uploaded some example web pages and notes at
http://www.limitless.co.uk/~paola/tmp/chi-web/


Paola

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