Breadcrumbs aide visitors in traversing content-rich sites by providing feedback on how "deep" visitors have navigated into the site and on how to get back where they came from.

The DNN breadcrumb skin object makes it easy to implement breadcrumbs in your skins so there is really no excuse not to use them.

However, there is a small usability issue as DNN's skin object renders the last item in the breadcrumb trail as a link. What can we do about it? Read on ...

Fixing the DNN Breadcrumb Skin Object

 

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Tom Kraak
SEO Analyst
R2integrated

Tom,

I submitted this issue to Gemini a little while ago... http://support.dotnetnuke.com/issue/ViewIssue.aspx?id=6970&PROJID=2

Would you add your solution to the issue?

Further, I also think the breadcrumb and sitemap objects should be easily extended by modules.  The blog is a perfect case where the breadcrumb takes the visitor to the blog home but doesn't update for the individual postings.  The visitor won't care about module and tabs, all they know is the great navigation device suddenly stopped updating. 

I tried getting some feed back on this but not much happened. If you agree, could you champion the idea?  Perhaps people will listen to a DNN Supporter.

Lance

Lance,

That is a very good recommendation about the extension of the breadcrumb as it could be very helpful if implemented in an easy to use manner.

The only real difficulty that I would see is how you would handle having two dynamic modules on the same page.  (A blog and a store or something odd like that).

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