Chapter 7. Leaving Breadcrumb Trails

Folktales and fairy stories have much to teach us. Sure, they might seem like kid's stuff, but, if you examine them closely, you find that they tackle the big questions—evil, justice, virtue, Web design—in deeply symbolic ways.

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A breadcrumb trail is a navigation element that helps your visitors figure out where they are in your site hierarchy by showing the current page's relationship to the rest of the surrounding structure.

Take the story of Hansel and Gretel. Hansel leaves a trail of breadcrumbs so that he and his sister Gretel can find their way out of the forest, where their wicked stepmother tries to abandon them. On the surface, the story is just another diatribe against wicked stepmothers, ...

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