From 03e45ae848f510e1392eab37e80d5e33f74ae87f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rohan Kumar Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 02:30:48 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Mention visited link color --- content/posts/website-best-practices.gmi | 4 ++++ content/posts/website-best-practices.md | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/posts/website-best-practices.gmi b/content/posts/website-best-practices.gmi index b416819..35707f4 100644 --- a/content/posts/website-best-practices.gmi +++ b/content/posts/website-best-practices.gmi @@ -150,6 +150,10 @@ Chris Siebenmann describes this in more detail: In short: when setting colors, always set both the foreground and the background color. Don't set just one of the two. +Chris also describes the importance of visited link colors: + +=> https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/RealBlogUsability RealBlogUsability + ## Dark themes If you do explicitly set colors, please also include a dark theme using a media query: diff --git a/content/posts/website-best-practices.md b/content/posts/website-best-practices.md index dd6c57b..30a1c5d 100644 --- a/content/posts/website-best-practices.md +++ b/content/posts/website-best-practices.md @@ -136,7 +136,9 @@ Some users' browsers set default page colors that aren't black-on-white. For ins {{< picture name="website_colors" alt="This page with a grey background behind black/grey headers and white-on-white code snippets" >}} -

{{% indieweb-person first-name="Chris" last-name="Siebenmann" url="https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/" %}} describes this in more detail in AWebColoursProblem. In short: when setting colors, always set both the foreground and the background color. Don't set just one of the two.

+A second opinion: {{% indieweb-person first-name="Chris" last-name="Siebenmann" url="https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/" %}} describes this in more detail in [AWebColoursProblem](https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/AWebColoursProblem). In short: when setting colors, always set both the foreground and the background color. Don't set just one of the two. + +Chris also describes the importance of visited link colors in [RealBlogUsability](https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/RealBlogUsability). ### Dark themes