Hot link ? (direct ?)
First about the CITE..the cite shows me where the article comes from, who wrote it and the date. It's like the provenance for the article. A CITE is different than a site. A site is the actual website. So, you use the cite to show me the website it came from.
As for all that fancy hotlinks, colors and all that jazz...I haven't a clue, lol!
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