by extragear » Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:35 am
Greetings:
We are redesigning our site (with the help of a designer) and the question of breadcrumb navigation came about. (We all know the benefits of having it.)
I reviewed the forum (as well as this posting), cookbook and help documents.
From what I can tell one way to implement breadcrumb navigation is to:
1. Edit the page and product templates so they use one of the page or product extra fields. Place the field where you want the navigation to appear.
2. Create the css to format the field.
3. Go through each page and product and enter the appropriate navigation path.
In general, is this correct?
If so then,
1. What would be a example of a code you would insert into say a product extra field?
2. Any tips on speeding up the creation of the appropriate links for each page and product? I know that some pages as well as some products would share the same navigation breadcrumb. Maybe setting up a spreadsheet with parts of the code in it?
3. What if a page or product could be listed under two different parent pages?
For example, lets say we sold boots. There are fashion boots, winter boots, work boots. You could also break down your offerings by brand name.
So you could have a page or product logically follow two different parent pages.
Example, Parent Page is Work boots, then subpage could be steel toed work boots, then on the steel toed page you would list all steel toed work boots.
But you could also have a Parent Page of Redwing Boots (thats a brand), then a subpage of Redwing steel toed on which you could list all Redwing steel toed work boots.
So in this case you can have Redwing steel toed work boots assigned to more than one page.
Therefore my question is, which path would you choose for the product that can be assigned to two different pages?
Thanks
Tim
Belden Motosport