That's standard HTML behavior. If you want to deprogram such behavior globally across your site, you would need to learn to work with style sheets

Here's a basic tutorial to using CSS:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

To add to jojooboo's post, you can also write it this way and add a "hover" so that it turns color when the mouse is put on the link (you can use the hex decimal codes for colors, as well):



Put this tag just under the </head> tag. You do not need to put this tag in front of every single link, it will be global for all the links on your page.

Good catch, Pete.

I don't even pay attention to which forums the threads are posted.

However, with that method, does it apply to each link only, or could it be done globally?

Yes your method works fine leighsww
I was just assuming that as chemic2 was posting in the frontpage section I would give the frontpage answer.

Al the suggestions work just fine  

I have loaded Frontpage onto one of my machines to look for  the 'global' setting and will post the 'button click' answer IF I find it