BlobFisk - 1:32 pm on Jan 29, 2008 (gmt 0)

No problem C! ;)

It's very true - without a tree-like hierarchy the traditional site specific breadcrumbs don't really work. You need to have a very clear idea of the information architecture of your site and translate this into how you will build your breadcrumbs.

As cmarshall says Wikis and freeform sites can be very difficult to do this for, as the information there is graph like in structure, rather than tree like. This is where path structured breadcrumbs may be an option.

Keith Instones poster on the 3 Breadcrumb types is always a good read: http://instone.org/breadcrumbs [instone.org]

[edited by: BlobFisk at 1:32 pm (utc) on Jan. 29, 2008]