http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites A style guide for the editors of Serious Eats Wed, 19 May 2010 14:50:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites/2008/07/02/link-text-length-of/ http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites/2008/07/02/link-text-length-of/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:23:44 +0000 Adam http://www.hatchback.net/stylebites/?p=55 Once upon a time there was a little blogger named Goldilinks. She went for a surf on the web. Pretty soon she found an awesome news nugget she wanted to share with her readers.

First she wrote her link like this: <a href=”URL”>Here</a> is a yummy recipe for porridge that is neither too hot nor too cold but just right.

But that link was too short and didn’t offer the reader much of a target to click on or send much of a cue as to what she was linking to, she thought, so she tried again: <a href=”URL”>Here is a yummy recipe for porridge that is neither too hot nor too cold but just right.</a>

But that link was too long and created so much blue link text that it looked strange, she thought, so she tried again: Here is a <a href=”URL”>yummy recipe for porridge</a> that is neither too hot nor too cold but just right.

Her third link was just right, she thought, so she checked her spelling once more, checked her URL basename, made sure all her links were working, and hit “Publish.”

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