{"id":68272,"date":"2023-03-05T09:09:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T09:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=68272"},"modified":"2023-03-05T09:09:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T09:09:24","slug":"getting-hyperlinks-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/03\/05\/getting-hyperlinks-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting hyperlinks right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the number of entries in the glossary has risen some feedback was made that the hyperlinks to it were a distraction, being too bright and too bold.<\/p>\n<p>So, they are now in a deeper red than standard hyperlinks and are not in bold. Italics have also been removed.<\/p>\n<p>They now might look like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-68273\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-05-at-08.33.57-550x232.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-05-at-08.33.57-550x232.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-05-at-08.33.57-768x324.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-05-at-08.33.57-1536x647.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-05-at-08.33.57-600x253.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-05-at-08.33.57.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is that better? Adding the glossary appears to be important but making it a distraction is not the aim. If you have an opinion might you let me know?<\/p>\n<p>It was to seek opinion on this that the idea of adding polling to the site occurred to me (although once I had realised it was possible I saw the potential for other purposes) so can I do a poll on this?<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-6\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Are the new hyperlinks:<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-6-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>About right? <small>(78%, 72 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"wp-polls-bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"wp-polls-bar-fill\" style=\"width: 78%\"><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>I'm abstaining, but show me the results anyway <small>(12%, 11 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"wp-polls-bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"wp-polls-bar-fill\" style=\"width: 12%\"><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Too prominent? <small>(5%, 5 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"wp-polls-bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"wp-polls-bar-fill\" style=\"width: 5%\"><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Not obvious enough? <small>(4%, 4 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"wp-polls-bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"wp-polls-bar-fill\" style=\"width: 4%\"><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center\">Total Voters: <strong>92<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_6_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"3da0a2fefc\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-6-loading\" class=\"wp-polls wp-polls-loading\"><span class=\"wp-polls-spinner\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Loading ...<\/div>\n\n<p>Comments are also welcome: it is important that I get this right for as many readers as possible.<\/p>\n<p>And on another blogging-related issue, the inclusion of polls boosted traffic considerably yesterday. 9,000 reads on a Saturday is unusual but was recorded yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the number of entries in the glossary has risen some feedback was made that the hyperlinks to it were a distraction, being too bright<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/03\/05\/getting-hyperlinks-right\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68276,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68272\/revisions\/68276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}