visited link color

[Peter]

Congrats to your new forum, Chris. Here is one suggestion for better usability. Currently it is not possible to see which threads I have already read when I use the browser's back button to go back to the thread index (which is the fasted way). That's because the same color is defined for visited links as for new links:

a:link
{
color: #22229C;
}
a:visited
{
color: #22229C;
}

A slight change in the second value should do the trick.

[Chris Breeze]

OK, I've set the visited link to a lighter blue. It's very easy to change, so please let me know if you think a different color would work better.

[Peter]

Works for me. Thanks for the (as usual) quick response.

[Peter]

I thought I was satisfied... but now I find it confusing that the visited links are lighter than the new ones. That is because in standard HTML it's vice versa: a visited link turns dark. What do you think? I don't want to be a pain, it's all about usability. :D

How about this setting:

a:link
{
color: #0000FF;
}
a:visited
{
color: #22229C;
}

[Chris Breeze]

OK, but I don't want to keep changing things and confuse people.
I've changed it to the conventional blue (#0000ff) for unvisited links and magenta (#800080) for visited links.