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Posted by rlee0001 on 12/15/30 11:53
Colin wrote:
> I've always thought of breadcrumbs as a representation of where you
> have been, to answer the wuestion 'How did I get here?'. A kinda fancy
> way to show a users history within your website's domain. Breadcrumbs
> are named such as a reference to the fairy tale of hansel & gretal
> (spell?). They left breadcrumbs on the trail the took to know how to
> get back....
>
> What you are talking about I would call a directory or page heirarchy.
>
Well I think these are the two varieties that bread crumbs come in. I
guess which one an author chooses is based on his own tastes and how he
expects his site to be used.
Personally I find history-based breadbrumbs pointless. Why do I need a
link to where I've already been? Wouldn't I just use the back button?
Heirarchy breadcrumbs are very useful not only for navigation but also
for orientation.
-Robert
> crescent_au@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I want to create dynamic breadcrumbs for a site I am developing. I just
> > want to get some views about the algorithm of breadcrumbs.
> >
> > The way I look at it is the concept of parent/ child (main/ sub). I
> > have the "Home" page, which has links to sub-pages such as
> > "Introduction", "History", "Timetable", etc. Each page can have other
> > sub-pages, such as "Timetable" can have "Semester1", "Semester2", etc.
> > This is how I'd initially think. Am I on the right track? If yes, how
> > do I proceed? Do I need a database or is there another efficient way to
> > do it? If it is in fact the way I am thinking, then I think I need a
> > way to "register" or hold the data in some way and access it on each
> > page. I'm just lost here.
> >
> > Please push me to the right direction.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ben
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