: Making coloured text links stand out and obvious that they can be clicked on This is a redesign of my website: As you can see, its largely a work in progress; I'm trying to do a flat

@Smith574

Link are traditionally underlined. If you keep the underline they will really standout as links.

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@Pierce403

You could add an arrow or a bar to emphasize the links more. To me, as they stand, they look like headers only (although I like the cleanness).

You could also hyperlink in your descriptions (repeat the title) so that if someone doesn't see them as links, they can catch the hyperlink.

eg: In Learning Java - Introduction, I decided to...

Dominic's suggestion of 'Read More' is a good one also.

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@Murray976

Color continuity always helps design.

Using the same color as the header background is a good choice. There's enough contrast to read the links clearly and the color differentiates the links from the standard headers ("Latest blog posts").

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@Angie364

I think that it's not immediately obvious that they're links. Nothing wrong with that though and they'll realise if they hover over it.

I'd just add a fail-safe option where you've put [...] as a standard (blue) HTML link saying Read More or something similar. Nothing wrong with two links to the same content.

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