Breadcrumb Trail

A breadcrumb trail shows us where we are in relation to the home page. We can jump up a level or two, or all the way back to the home page.

On this page, and virtually every other page on this site, the breadcrumb trail is located just below the search box near the top of the page.

It's the line that starts with, "You are here >"...

The link "Home" leads to the home page, which is the top level link.

To the immediate right of the "Home" link is the "Web Site Design" link. This is the second level link and leads to the section's home page.

Here are the four recognized rules of breadcrumb trails:

Breadcrumb trails work best when placed near the top of the page.
The best level separator is the greater than ( > ) character. Some sites use a pipe ( | ), colon ( : ) or forward slash ( / ) character to separate the levels.
Highlight the level the user is on in bold.
Include the words "You are here >" at the beginning of the breadcrumb trail

Try to incorporate as many of the rules as possible, but you don't have to use them all. For example, you may have noticed that I have not highlighted the level the user is on in bold, in this site.

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