Breadcrumbs, do you leave a trail for you customers to find their way home? This is the basic premise of breadcrumbs, they are like the trails left by children in fairytales to escape the haunted forest and find their way back to Grandma’s house.
These nice little additions to a website help visitors both new and regular find where they are down a particular path and retrace their steps if they need to. For website designers they make navigation and usability easier and make moving around sites simpler.
Home >>> Confectionary >>> Cookies >>> Chocolate
So by looking at the trail of words you can see that you are looking at chocolate, cookies in the confectionary department. If you wanted to back space to see what other flavors they have or if they make fruit raisin cookies, it is an easy task to achieve.
The breadcrumbs need to be one or two word descriptions of your pages, not as complex as the title tags or the page heading but visual clues to guide the user. They can then at a quick glance see where in the process they are and in which direction they wish to go next. What the breadcrumb trail does is in effect mimic your websites main navigation and will become a readily understandable process to clients.
Business web site design specialists like Forescene can very easily explain and implement this form of addition into you site, making the user experience a whole lot more pleasurable.
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