RE: Linking websites

Hi Luke,

Thanks for your question. I hope you enjoyed the Dreamweaver training.

I did answer this post a while ago, same question:
http://www.microsofttraining.net/post-892-how-do-you-change.html#899

It's best to use CSS to control the colours of your links.
A link tag, as you know, is simply 'a' for anchor.
In CSS you use the 4 selector classes to indicate the style per state of link, like this:

a:hover
a:link
a:visited
a:active

If you define a different style for each of these, your web page should show different styles -and colours if specified- for your links.

Keep in mind that most web users are used to seeing links as Blue. So if you've chosen another colour (perhaps to match your design), I'd recommend ensuring your links are underlined, and no other text is underlined. Visitors expect links to be underlined.

It's frustrating, isn't it, when you click some underlined text and it isn't actually a link. Likewise, if you don't underline your links, most visitors won't realise where your links are. (ie. they have to hover over all your text to 'find' the links - awful!)

So some example CSS code for you, Luke, might be this:
a:link {
color: red;
}
a:hover {
color: green;
weight: bold;
}

This will make all your links red, and when the mouse is hovered over them, they will turn green and bold.

If you have any trouble, post a follow up reply to this thread, and I'll assist you further.

If this answer resolves your query, please mark the question as 'resolved' (see below). Otherwise, please post a follow-up response to this post, and I will assist you further.

Regards, Rich