Back in the early 1990’s, it was just text links. Menus and actions were just underlined text which pushed you this way and that throught a site. Generally blue too, they were very predictable, and yet we understood very clearly what they were and they served a good purpose.
When there were buttons on a site, they were just the standard ‘Microsoft’-looking button: small, grey and missable.
Not very inviting, are they?
Then, with the advent of better graphics packages, things went a bit wild. Clip Art, Bevels and Shading:
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