Breadcrumb Navigation
Breadcrumb Navigation, or breadcrumbs, are a type of secondary navigation on a website
that helps users understand their location within the site's hierarchy. All pages
have a breadcrumb and this can't be turned off. The breadcrumbs are displayed as a
horizontal list of links above your page title. Breadcrumb navigation is designed
so that a user can return to previous pages as they click into deeper parts of your
website. It also serves an important purpose to let the user know what page they are
currently on and where that page resides within your site’s directory. This is a critical
part of the user’s experience, especially if your key audience is researching information
about a program at the university.
Since not all our current templates contain editable breadcrumb fields inside Page
Parameters, pages will use the Page Heading field as a default if a breadcrumb is
not present. This can be changed at any time.
- Page-Level Breadcrumbs show a visitor which page they are currently visiting. For non-index pages, it is controlled through Properties > Parameters. If this is left blank, your breadcrumb will take on the Page Heading's value instead.
Index pages will always use the folder's breadcrumb name and cannot be customized through Page Parameters. A page-level breadcrumb is not clickable because
it indicates to a user the page they are currently visiting.
- Folder-Level Breadcrumbs show a clickable path of folders in your site, letting users easily go back to previous
levels. Clicking back in the breadcrumbs, a visitor will always be taken to the index
page of the folder. An index.pcf page must exist inside all your folders and sub-folders,
otherwise the folder's breadcrumb link will be broken. To change the name of folder
breadcrumbs, you must put in a CMS Request Help ticket to request a folder name change.
