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Luckily, my manager kept her e-mail with the winning submissions for the
alternative suggestions for the Breadcrumb trail:
Seriously Appropriate Category: Winner was "navigation trail"
Honorable Mentions:
history trail; location indicator; map milestones; navigation link; page
path; path; path link; process path; screen navigation trail; back track;
flashback; footprints; roadsigns; site link
In the Totally Ridiculous Category: Winner: whereyabeen
In the Honorable Mention Category: backdraft
beaten path; escape route; family tree; Goldi Links; Hansel's helper;
lifeline; Link Thingy; Link-n-Park; Pinky-Linky; psychopath; skid-mark;
stepping stone; Where-am-I's; Circle of Life
The two Winners got "Breadcrumb Baskets" filled with breads! The
Honorably Mentioned get mini-chocolate bars. As you can tell, we have WAY
too much fun at our office :-)))
Have a great day!
:-) joan
Here's our original email asking for submissions:
"Breadcrumb" or "Breadcrumb Trail"
One or more hypertext links back to a previous web page. In our software,
the Breadcrumb Trail is located at the top of the workspace area. As you
perform a process in our softare where selections in the left pane are
required, each page completed becomes part of this hyperlink so that you
can backtrack through a process.
Example: Company > Broker > Fee Schedules > Sliding Fees
Sample Entries
SERIOUSLY APPROPRIATE TOTALLY RIDICULOUS
trail pointer OTBP: Off the beaten path...
Function path B/F: back and forth
Function monitor Roadsigns
Selection link Psycho Path
process link Footprints
navigational link Escape Route
path link Backtrack
site link Beaten Path
session link Trail Markers
process path Page Chain
session path Daisy Chain
status indicator Daisy Cutter
process indicator Daisy Duke
back track
path minder
path finder
URhere
whereurat
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