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Posted by Spartanicus on 10/06/38 11:43
xyZed <xyzed@xyzed.co.uk> wrote:
>I have a page who's breadcrumb trail looks something like this
>
>home /main section /sub section /pageinquestion.html
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>I have no problem showing this breadcrumb trail on the
>"pageinquestion.html"
>
>The problem is, what trail do I show to the visitor arriving at the
>pageinquestion.html directly from a link on my home page? Or for that
>matter from another page within my site.
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>Going straight from the home page should logically show
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>home/page.html
>
>But I can only show one breadcrumb trail. Should I show the breadcrumb
>trail of the actual full logical structure of the page? Would that be
>disorientating for visitors jumping straight to the page from
>elsewhere?
Breadcrumb is a misnomer, it's purpose is not to show the path that the
user has followed to get to the page where they are at, it's purpose is
to convey the vertical path in the site's hierarchy starting at the
home/index page.
So a contact page would show "Home > About > Contact" with Home and
About hyperlinked regardless of how the user got there.
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Spartanicus
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