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Posted to dev@commons.apache.org by "Mark R. Diggory" <md...@latte.harvard.edu> on 2004/06/05 19:11:33 UTC

[site] Thoughts on breadcrumbs

Site looks good.

I was considering the idea that we should go through each project and 
make sure the navigation.xml files contain proper bread crumb links in 
the grey breadcrumb bar.

See Math for example:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/math/

This is something that can be a global entity include just like the 
other navigation sections.


<project name="Math">

   <title>Math</title>
   <organizationLogo href="/images/jakarta-logo-blue.gif">
    Jakarta
   </organizationLogo>

   <body>
     <links>
       <item name="Jakarta"
             href="http://jakarta.apache.org"/>
       <item name="Jakarta Commons"
             href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/"/>
     </links>

     ...


the following could be in a file global-links.ent that gets included 
into menus.dtd

<links>
   <item name="Jakarta"
      href="http://jakarta.apache.org"/>
   <item name="Jakarta Commons"
      href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/"/>
</links>


included into the dtd as

<!ENTITY global-links SYSTEM "global-links.ent">
<!ENTITY common-menus "&top-menus;&bottom-menus;&global-links;">


-Mark

-- 
Mark Diggory
Software Developer
Harvard MIT Data Center
http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu

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Re: [site] Thoughts on breadcrumbs

Posted by "Mark R. Diggory" <md...@latte.harvard.edu>.

I now think your right. I went and looked at several large maven sites, 
I have to say, no one really uses this as a bread crumb trail. Its 
mostly just used to provide links to related projects. For instance: 
Maven, Jelly, Plugins etc...

-Mark

Dirk Verbeeck wrote:

> Personally I don't see a lot of added value.
> Jakarta already has a big logo with a link and the Commons Homepage is 
> the first item in the menu.
>
> If it becomes a real bread crumb trail, from apache to the actual page 
> then it might be more usefull.
>
> -- Dirk

Re: [site] Thoughts on breadcrumbs

Posted by Dirk Verbeeck <di...@pandora.be>.

Personally I don't see a lot of added value.
Jakarta already has a big logo with a link and the Commons Homepage is 
the first item in the menu.

If it becomes a real bread crumb trail, from apache to the actual page 
then it might be more usefull.

-- Dirk

Mark R. Diggory wrote:
> Site looks good.
> 
> I was considering the idea that we should go through each project and 
> make sure the navigation.xml files contain proper bread crumb links in 
> the grey breadcrumb bar.
> 
> See Math for example:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/math/
> 
> This is something that can be a global entity include just like the 
> other navigation sections.
> 
> 
> <project name="Math">
> 
>   <title>Math</title>
>   <organizationLogo href="/images/jakarta-logo-blue.gif">
>    Jakarta
>   </organizationLogo>
> 
>   <body>
>     <links>
>       <item name="Jakarta"
>             href="http://jakarta.apache.org"/>
>       <item name="Jakarta Commons"
>             href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/"/>
>     </links>
> 
>     ...
> 
> 
> the following could be in a file global-links.ent that gets included 
> into menus.dtd
> 
> <links>
>   <item name="Jakarta"
>      href="http://jakarta.apache.org"/>
>   <item name="Jakarta Commons"
>      href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/"/>
> </links>
> 
> 
> included into the dtd as
> 
> <!ENTITY global-links SYSTEM "global-links.ent">
> <!ENTITY common-menus "&top-menus;&bottom-menus;&global-links;">
> 
> 
> -Mark
> 



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