Hi there,<br />
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I need to include a simple visual aid on each page of my web site which helps a user to know where they are within the site. <br />
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I was going to put a text label at the top of each page, but if the hierarchy of the pages changes down the track, I may need to change the text labels on a heap of pages.<br />
<br />
Does anyone have an alternative suggestion?<br />
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Thanks.<!--content-->sounds linke you will need to hard code this effect.<!--content-->Do you have a link? to get some ideas?<br />
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Not sure how experienced you are, but if you are sharing the same navigation throughout the site, one easy way would be to remove the link tags from the link of the page you are currently on and bold the text...or make it a different color...or underline it or something.<br />
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That way you dont need to make any extra headers or anything.<br />
<br />
another way to do the same thing is to use an external css to to style the links. Then make a class of link for the page you are currently on and then simply add the class attribute to the link of that page.<!--content-->hastx's suggestion works great for shallow web sites, meaning that each page is one or two clicks away. If you have lots of folders within folders that contain pages, rather, you've got lots of main sections and many subsections, try using a "paper trail" of links near the top of the content area of each page.<br />
<br />
Home > Section > Subsection > Current Page<br />
<br />
That is an effect that you have to hard code into each page. You could experiment with a server-side script that could dynamicaly write the links.<br />
<br />
For an example, see the address below on my site:<br />
<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://users.tm.net/gburghardt/*****in/comment/techsupport.html">http://users.tm.net/gburghardt/*****in/ ... pport.html</a><!-- m --><!--content-->
<br />
I need to include a simple visual aid on each page of my web site which helps a user to know where they are within the site. <br />
<br />
I was going to put a text label at the top of each page, but if the hierarchy of the pages changes down the track, I may need to change the text labels on a heap of pages.<br />
<br />
Does anyone have an alternative suggestion?<br />
<br />
Thanks.<!--content-->sounds linke you will need to hard code this effect.<!--content-->Do you have a link? to get some ideas?<br />
<br />
Not sure how experienced you are, but if you are sharing the same navigation throughout the site, one easy way would be to remove the link tags from the link of the page you are currently on and bold the text...or make it a different color...or underline it or something.<br />
<br />
That way you dont need to make any extra headers or anything.<br />
<br />
another way to do the same thing is to use an external css to to style the links. Then make a class of link for the page you are currently on and then simply add the class attribute to the link of that page.<!--content-->hastx's suggestion works great for shallow web sites, meaning that each page is one or two clicks away. If you have lots of folders within folders that contain pages, rather, you've got lots of main sections and many subsections, try using a "paper trail" of links near the top of the content area of each page.<br />
<br />
Home > Section > Subsection > Current Page<br />
<br />
That is an effect that you have to hard code into each page. You could experiment with a server-side script that could dynamicaly write the links.<br />
<br />
For an example, see the address below on my site:<br />
<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://users.tm.net/gburghardt/*****in/comment/techsupport.html">http://users.tm.net/gburghardt/*****in/ ... pport.html</a><!-- m --><!--content-->