Link behavior in text navigation menu

[gnubler]

How do you guys style text links in a navigation menu? I'm working on a couple of sites right now which both have text menus styled with CSS. I fully understand the three important parts of site navigation: where am I? where have I been? where can I go next? But after testing and going through my site, I'm finding it unsightly to have a nav menu with different colored/styled links, depending on what's been visited or not.

Anyone have any insight on this? Seen any text menus with link styling that works well? Let me know.

Thanks.

[Wickham]

My older web pages have the standard colors but now I tend to have the same colors for the link, visited and active (or just a slight difference), all different from normal text color so the link is obvious, and a contrasting color for hover.

I'm also using highlighted backgrounds of a slightly contrasting color on hover.