[thelist] Breadcrumb theory
Daniel Fascia
danfascia at totalise.co.uk
Tue Jun 17 19:52:25 CDT 2003
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>> I was contemplating how to make versatile "breadcrumbs" on pages that
>> would be flexible enough that you could make them work without
>> hard-coding them into each page. I also didn't want to depend
>> Javascript.
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>> Use Server-Side Includes.
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If it has to be SSI then that seems to work fine but I find it a bit
laborious to set up all of those little include files
If other languages are available then I tend to build a breadcrumb trail
by exploding the URL string into chunks with a
generic script...
e.g. http://www.danfascia.com/photos/march_2003/
could be easily spliced into
home > photos > march 2003
and, with a little bit more fiddling you can easily set it up so that
the last section of the URL is checked for its extension and then
dynamically used as a page <title> which should help with search engine
relevance
http://www.danfascia.com/photos/march_2003/Skiing_In_Chamonix.html
<title>Dan Fascia: photos - Skiing In Chamonix </title>
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