From the submitter's point of view...

[tigermom]

Fonz, yeah, I see your point. Maybe add a rule (oops, did I say that???) that your recip should be of the same type as other recips in the table and if they use the colorful designed ones for other LL's they should use yours as well? Just thinking aloud here.

Matuez, I think that if you don't designate the colors of your links they should come up the same as any link on the page. I use CSS for my designs anyway, so having internal style or font tags is redundant

UW - yes, I do come up with text links of my own, even if you won't provide them, but your LL had better have very good traffic to be worth my time for it. I will test, and move on if I'm not happy.

Yes, I will test and move on, not only based on your links design but my point is that if you make it easier for me and save me time as a submitter, I will be more likely to try your LL for longer. Give me a hard time, and I will move on more quickly. Sure, you may be overflooded with wonderful surely gorgeous free sites and don't need mine, so cool, I'll move on.

As for the readbale, or unreadable confirmation codes, isn't there some level where computers can read it but us mortals can do it with ease? I can't tell you how frustrating it is to fill in a form, then get stuck on that code, get the wrong one then get bounced back to the form which is now empty and need to be filled in again... yes, happened to me only yesterday and guess what, I just went on to another LL...