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Subject:"Breadcrumbs" in Dreamweaver? From:Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Fri, 06 Feb 2004 09:47:02 -0500
I'm in the early throes of throwing together version 0.1 of my future
Web site using Dreamweaver 4, and discovered yet another thing I don't
yet know how to do. I'd like to automatically insert "breadcrumbs"--so
named based on the tale of the children wandering in the woods and
marking their path by leaving a trail of breadcrumbs.
In Web terms, these are the "you are here, and here's the path within
the site's hierarchy you took to get here" lines that appear at the top
of a page. For example:
Home --> Resources --> Mac --> Downloads
Clicking on any of these words brings you back to that page within the
site's hierarchy. I find this more effective than relying on the
browser's "history" feature because it shows your position in the
site's hierarchy, not just how you got there, and greatly facilitates
backtracking.
The Dreamweaver docs make no mention of this that I couuld find, so I
imagine this is something that would be handled by a third-party
plug-in of some sort. (For example, NetObjects Fusion has exactly such
a plug-in: you add it to the MasterBorder, and the plug-in does the
rest.) Any thoughts on how to do this automatically? I can kludge my
way around it using templates, but that's more maintenance-intensive
than I'd like.
--Geoff Hart ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca
(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)