Links are the elements that should be designed as soon as possible, because clicking links is the most frequent action of Internet users.
We spent a lot of time on the display of the link itself, such as the existing four states: normal, Access, mouse hover, mouse clicks. But there is a lack of "hint" about the results after the click.
After the so-called click of the results, the most common three kinds: in a new window (or a new tab) open a new page, in the current window open a new page, Popup Alert message box.
In fact, from the visual design of the click after the result "hint", than the link itself to show more important.
Do not think netizens are like you, know to use shortcut key clicks can open in a new window, domestic more than 60% netizens still use the IE6. Even in foreign countries, I believe that it is also common to not know the shortcut keys.
My proposed scheme is as follows:
For simple pages, many websites have removed the underlined links. This is not inconsistent with the above design, can be in the normal time without underlining, but in the mouse hover time with.