Sorry About the Underlining
Posted by Cottontimer on 06 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Writing
In the process of looking up punctuation for headlines (no periods at the end, please!), I learned that you’re not supposed to use underline for web publications because it makes it look like a clickable link.
Oops. I was doing it all the time for the questions I like asking people at the end of posts.
When I told Christina, she said:
Christina Jones says : i hate underlined stuff
Christina Jones says : i always think it’s a link
Hsien Lei says : lol
Hsien Lei says : i was doing it for the questions i ask at the end of a post because i saw another blogger do it
Hsien Lei says : dammit
Christina Jones says : or i have a compulsion to at least check
Christina Jones says : it’s personal preference – whatever makes you happy – if we all did the same thing, life would be mighty dull
Hsien Lei says : oh shut up
Hsien Lei says : i don’t care about happy. i care about doing things right.
Today I pledge to italicize instead of underline. Profound apologies for my previous transgressions.
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I hate to do this to you, but I have to admit that I’ve always been irritated by underlining online too :p
Rosie: Like you guys couldn’t have told me this sooner? Sheesh.
Italics for names too.
Thanks for the link.
Rich: Oh, dear. I had better trash this blog full of punctuation, grammar, and formatting errors. GAH.
Me, too. Tried to click on the “link” in your questions a few times, too. But, being that you are the blogmaster guru, I figured it was just me.
Kerri: What in the world is wrong with you people?! I’ve been doing that for years and nobody put a stop to it. I swear.
haha..the first few times i would also check if it’s a link. But once i got used to the fact that it’s you way to end the blog, got used to it!
so if in case you did put a link up with the question once in a while, I wouldn’t know!
I didn’t know there was some sort of protocol. oops…can’t imagine all the don’ts I am doing in my own journal…hehehe
I can’t think of a better phrase to describe you.
I think I may need to research some of my own blogging behavior. Who knows how many rules I’m breaking!
smitha: It’s good to have friends who know your idiosyncracies.
Bald Man: Thank you…I think?!
LG: Haven’t noticed a thing yet.