[thelist] Usability Ideas/Suggestions
David.Cantrell at Gunter.AF.mil
David.Cantrell at Gunter.AF.mil
Wed Aug 14 10:49:01 CDT 2002
>Now, the tree would say =
>[ Home ]
> [ Thoughts ]
> ..U R here...
>
>Then, if the user were to go to another parent's child, it would display :
>[ Home ]
> [ Thoughts ]
> [ Parent ]
> ..U R here...
Would this history be persistent? In other words, if I am at Home > Thoughts
and go to Home > Rants, does the tree look like this:
[ Home ]
[ Thoughts ]
[ Rants ]
Or does it look like this:
[ Home ]
[ Rants ]
If the latter, it's just a breadcrumb in a different layout. I've seen this
layout on some sites, search engines, etc but can't recall any off-hand.
If the former, be aware it could become unweildy very quickly if the user
visits a lot of pages.
As for storage, either a database or a cookie would probably work. I prefer
the cookie off-hand because with the database you would need to deal with
deleting the information when a user leaves.
-dave
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