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FrontPage breadcrumbs Instructions from Kaosweaver downloadable from AddonFP - FrontPage Addons

Site Root Directory

Enter the site's web address. For instance, enter www.microsoft.com for http://www.microsoft.com/. Make sure you leave off the http:// and the / at the end.

Text Delimiter

The Text Delimiter is the part that goes in-between the crumb trail. In this trail:
Home >> Add-Ins >> Kaosweaver Add-ins
The delimiter is '>>', so enter the text characters you would like to use as delimiters.

Default Page

This entry is the page the trail will be linking to. It is important to create a default file in each directory of the web site equal to this entry. Common default pages are default.htm, default.asp, index.htm, index.html, and index.asp.

How Breadcrumbs work

The breadcrumbs script works off of the directory structure of your site and provides links to get a user back to home while bouncing around your web site. It doesn't follow the path they have taken (that is what the history button is for) it follows the path of your site. As an example, if your site had products and services on it you would want to have the default page in the root of your site, two folders (products and services) each with the default page within them and then within products, you would have each product with its own folder (widget1 and widget2) and each of those with the default page in them. What happens, for instance, if you had a link on the services page which linked directly to widget2's default page, the trail would reflect the widget2 path's to the home page like so:
Home >> Products >> Widget2

The services page breadcrumb trail looks like

Home >> Services

The last item in the breadcrumb trail comes from the <title></title> part of the page, leaving this blank or with something un-descriptive will make the trail less than effective. Finally, having other files within the directories will create another trail in the path. For example, if in the Widgets2 directory we have the default.htm file and we have a demo.htm file and we have a link on the default.htm page taking us to the demo.htm page, the demo.htm page breadcrumb trail would look like:

Home >> Products >> Widget2 >> Demo

Widget2 takes us to the default.htm file in the same directory as the demo.htm, but Products takes us to the default.htm file in the Products directory. Home takes us to the home page.