While on that topic, can you please use bold for emphasis and underline the links? Links on the web should be underlined unless you really make a big effort to distinguish them from the text in some other way.
Bold font just doesn't cut it.
If you don't want to think about it much, just slap some nice blue and underlining on the links and be done with it. That's a standard that will be recognized by everybody.
It's better to have your links ugly than not visible (recognizable) at all.
The bold helps, it calls attention to the link, but is still a little unconventional. Have you tried #007, it's a subtle dark blue, might not be too obnoxious.
@Thomas, Original - I agree completely. The boss chose the theme for other style elements. The main problem I am having is adding a element (CSS?) that styles the content links differently than the sidebar links. Since everything on the sidebar is a link making it blue would totally change the style of the page.
I need to do some research on how to make just content links underline/colored.
Bold font just doesn't cut it.
If you don't want to think about it much, just slap some nice blue and underlining on the links and be done with it. That's a standard that will be recognized by everybody.
It's better to have your links ugly than not visible (recognizable) at all.