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Subject: 
Re: Blind to icons
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 22:23:17 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.IHATESPAMorg
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Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote:
It has an icon instead of text for the anchor.  It's funny -- I'm wired to
interpret a colored, underlined piece of text to indicate a link than a
graphic.  Sure enough, the majority of links on the main page are text, and

A likely theory is: you've learned that random graphical links =
advertisements, and mentally tune them out. I know I do.

--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Blind to icons
 
Todd, I have made a rather startling discovery in myself, and I wonder if I'm alone. For the longest time, I was wondering why the Cool LEGO Site of the Week page wasn't linked to from the main LUGNET page. Obviously, I wasn't too bothered by this (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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