Hyperlinks - Friend of Foe?

By designing these links to be more descriptive, the user will not have to guess: "Browse Used Cars", "Browse Used Trucks and SUV's",  "Browse New Cars", "Browse New Trucks and SUV's", "Find a lender", "Find automobiles in your price range", "View price list of all models".   These tell the user exactly what she can expect to find in the next page.  ...

Dana Coffey


I agree Dana, but I also say that with some long links like that, how do you manage real estate on currently screen size people use?

It seems to be actually an average of 800*600 pixels screen size all around the place.

That's why I use short links, but you are probably right saying that they should be more descriptive.
Another thing also difficult is about underlining links.

It's ok if you don't have too much of them on the page, but otherwise it looks very clutter to have these links underlined all over.

I don't have a clue on the right solution, but for the moment I use a different color for the links, and underline them only on mouse over event.