Bare minimum of visual distraction when hyperlinking

The important thing is to hyperlink meaningful text.

You're contributing to the overall semantic nature of the Web by linking meaningful text. Yet if you look at sites for best hypertextual design, their linking styles range from Joyce's afternoon minimalism to Gizmodo's very formal, end-of-item announcements (in a different color, not underlined) of "Product Page," taking you to the official page for the product the blog item was about. For the most part, though, the sites' links, while mostly using underlining, are kept to the bare minimum of visual distraction within the body of text: a key noun or a punchy, active-verb phrase ("generate a sitemap" in Pearsonified).

In my own Metabole, after first going with big, long link phrases and then liking, for a time, the directness of a go "here" as the link, I moved on. I tried, recently, extreme minimalism in the links I was making to other hypertextual articles. I'd build the link in a verb relating to a story's action: "renaming," "looking," or even the simple "says."

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