For discussion on usability of "breadcrumb" trails see Nielsen, http://www.useit.com/alertbox/breadcrumbs.html
On Fri, June 6, 2008 7:45 am, libwebdev wrote: > Hi folks, > > My organisation manages around 7000+ pages for 100s of departments, > using a CMS. Mine is the only department outside the CMS, just because > we can. > > We have been persuaded (read: bullied) to redesign our header to > exactly match that of the parent organisation. I have no problem with > that per se, but theirs includes breadcrumbs, and we don't want 'em. > > I'm wondering what the consensus is here on their usefulness. I've > always been under the impression that the purpose of breadcrumbs was > to indicate to the user where they had been. However, the ones we are > being urged to implement do no such thing; they simply display our > organisational structure. This means that on every one of our 200-odd > pages, the breadcrumbs will appear like so (we are the library): > > Parent Org > Clinical Services > Library > Current page > > The only thing that's going to change is the current page. To me, > that's not a breadcrumb trail at all. > > Am I wrong in my thinking? Is this a common usage? How does this > benefit the user at all? > > I'm questioning it because of usability issues, which is how I tie it > in with web standards. If this is considered off-topic, I apologise, > and replies should come directly to me rather than the list. > > thanks, > lib. > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
