Most sites that display links lists, especially the social bookmarks sites tend to display information about each link in a repeater style (vs in a table or simple list). Since the PractiProj static Links pages were resigned into a Links base, I was looking into the various link repeaters styles to get ideas and design inspiration.

Below are screen captures of 18 hand picked link repeaters that stand out in design or simplicity.

Few Observations from those samples:

• White is a dominate color for background (17/18)
• ~50% use dividing line between links
• Blue is a dominant color for headings ~50%
• ~40% show small favcon of the user who submitted the link
• Only 1 used hover to highlight the current viewed link.
• ~25 display a small picture of the destination site. It is colorful and add visual effect to the site. However how useful it is? Small thumbnails hardly mean anything. On the other hand big thumbnails take too much space.

• Technorati
  
• Digg
  
• Dzone
  
• Kirtsy
  
• Magnolia
  
• Misterwong
  
• mixx
  
• Pixel2life
  
• Plime
  
• Pslover
  
• Diigo
  
• Scribd
  
• Seorank
  
• Shoutwire
  
• Slashdot
  
• Sphinn
  
• Autospies
  
• Citeulike