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title: Boost Website Design FAQ
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copyright: Rene Rivera 2006.
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revised:
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---
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Boost Website Design FAQ
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Boost Website Design FAQ
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* Links
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+ [Why are links
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"underlined"?](#faq-links-1)
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+ [Why are not "standard"
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underlines used for links?](#faq-links-2)
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+ [Why are not all links
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underlined?](#faq-links-3)
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Why are links
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"underlined"? The website follows some simple design
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principles to make the site as widely accessible as practical.
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The style for links within document text are underlined to have
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a non-color, clear, visual indicator that it is a link.
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Underlines provide the most familiar indicator to people
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because of the historical default usage by web browsers.
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Why are not
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"standard" underlines used for links? The use of the
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bottom border provides for considerable more flexibility in
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style than the underline font style. It is important to have
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such freedom to be able to indicate the various states links
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can be in. In the case of the Boost design the bottom border
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underline is used to represent the difference between internal
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vs. external links, and between visited and unvisited links.
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All of which are orthogonal to the text being a link.
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Why are not all
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links underlined? When it is clear from the context that
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the text is a link the underline is ommited to reduce visual
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clutter, as this is also within a context under which the text
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is already a collection of links. For such situations the
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design uses a link box context. All such links are placed
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within a light grey bordered box to indicate that the items
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within it are links.
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