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RE: crumb trails

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Aug 12, 2005 11:12AM

> First of all, and this is just my personal pet peeve, I don't
> like the term 'breadcrumb trail' as it's a bit misleading. A
> true crumbtrail will show you the path you've taken through
> the site. A breadcrumb trail is designed to show you where
> you are in the site hierarchy, regardless of the actual path
> you took.

I completely screwed that paragraph up.

I meant to say:

Breadcrumb = path you took
Topic path = 'you are here' in the site structure

-Darrel