Creating breadcrumbs in dreamweaver

Hi again Peter.

I call these breadcrumbs. They're not always easy to implement.

Aside from doing this manually, if you've got a lot of static pages you may be best off to organise your files into a neat directory structure, then let an extension to Dreamweaver do all the work for you.

There is the free MX Breadcrumbs which is a Dreamweaver MX extension that will create directory index along with breadcrumbs on a web page.

For a more automated approach that involves programming, check out this breadcrumb article on the adobe site.

See below for Library Item approach.

If you use dynamic pages (data is pulled from a database) it's fairly easy to assign categories to database tables, which can be programmed in to breadcrumbs on your page or template.

Library item approach

Another way is to have a few Dreamweaver Library items for each 'crumb'. For example, you may set up a library item with a link to Home and then an arrow > and that's all the library item is. You place that library item on every page of your template in the Breadcrumbs editable region or area. Then create another one, for example Product > and put this after the 'home' library item, but only on every of your product pages. And continue like this.

Good luck with your breadcrumb creation. If you have any further queries about this, please post a reply. Otherwise mark the question as resolved, thanks.

Regards, Rich

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For those interested, here's WHY you should have breadcrumbs.