A Tutorial on Setting Up Breadcrumb Files
- For a tutorial on setting up breadcrumb files, watch the multimedia presentation entitled Breadcrumbs Links provided by the Stanford Medical School.
Breadcrumbs
Here is an example breadcrumb for the CES site.
About the Breadcrumb
- The breadcrumb for each page tells the user where they are within the hierarchy of your site.
- These files are built using include files and are maintained by the Web Support Group.
- They live inside a folder called includes/
- They begin with the characters bc_.
- They use the file extension .htm to indicate that they are not full web pages; full web pages should have the extension .html
- The breadcrumb begins with your homepage and goes as far as a level-4 page.
- The breadcrumbs are coded using a simple <ul> list. Note that the first <li> in the list will contain class="first" to give it proper spacing/left margin.
Acronym Use
It is appropriate to use acronyms for the site name in the breadcrumb.