[Sigia-l] [Iai-Members] breadcrumbs all the way at the top

[Jay Morgan]

Hi Peter,

I know Confluence, an enterprise wiki, does because we use it for our
pattern library. Here's a link to a Confluence-based page listing public
instances of Confluence, where you might be able to find more examples:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Live+Customer+Sites+Powered+By+Confluence.
You can customize the UI considerably, and we'll probably move the
crumbtrail down some - after all, we adore branding and assert all the
rights of an American corporation to our brand icon.

I noticed Berkeley's site, berkeley.edu, hints at a trail in the top, but
like their football team doesn't finish the campaign. In fact, in most cases
the links in the body of the page take you to a new site. Here's an example
of where the crumbtrail continues two levels:
http://www.berkeley.edu/applying/aid/.

Further, I submit that we should not only check web metrics and Nielsen's
latest, but we should also ask what would Hansel and Gretel think? The
primordial users are so very important in the concept of this pattern that
we must put ourselves in their shoes, nee oven. Perhaps they would volunteer
for eye-tracking studies so we could finally validate that people look at
breadcrumbs more than they click on them?


I hope this helps.

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Peter Van Dijck <petervandijck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Does anyone know of example sites where the breadcrumbs are all the
> way at the top of the page (above the logo), as opposed to right
> underneath the main navigation (examples also welcome)?
>
> Thank!
> Peter
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