Breadcrumb home link

[benji_styler]

Hi,

Small problem that i need to fix before i can put this site live.

The home link on all pages in the breadcrumb trial links to a page which i dont want the user to see. Is there a way of globally chaning this link like i did for the main logo under Design > Design settings?

Here is a link to my site: http://gfc.alphaclient.co.uk

Any help would be greatly appriciated, as always :-)

[jont]

Yes - switch to the design tab - click on the button / link in the preview window and the layout will appear in the code window ... remove the blue Actinic variable inserting the link and hard code the link you require eg:

<a href="HomePageURL">.. or whatever variable is in there.... to

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/page.html">

.. there may be other styles, classes etc in there which should be retained... just edit the href="..." part.

HTH

[benji_styler]

Hi,

Thanks for your response its working great now! Any ideas how i enable the end link in my breadcrumb trail to be clickable so that it loads the page the user is currently on.

I know my html/css just been getting used to how actinic handles layouts.

Thanks agian for your help :-)

[leehack]

so that it loads the page the user is currently on.

Gotta be a wind up surely?

"Taxi!"
"Where you going mate"
"Right here driver"
"Ok jump in pal.......we're here"
"Thanks driver, keep the change"

Post of the year award for me.

[Darren B]

Are we sure, i think i have miss read that, you want to load the page you looking at already ?

[jont]

That is going to confuse the hell out of them - the whole point of links is to take the user somewhere else... if they get the same page they will click it again and again expecting it to take them to another page.... with breadcrumbs it is expected that the last in the list is the current location hence the hyperlink ability is missing.

[leehack]

I have heard a vicious rumour that another site owner does this, but i have been unable to locate a reason for the time being. Please do go to bed and do not wait up, it could take some time to extract.

[jont]

Please do go to bed and do not wait up, it could take some time to extract.

Where is Tracey when you need her??

[leehack]

Lmfao.....

[Darren B]

omg your so dead Jont, shes gonna have ya

[benji_styler]

well it seems to work on this site we develop/maintain achieveing 80,000 visitors a month

http://www.nfumutual.co.uk

And many more of our other sites, i work for an SEO company just following company practice :-)

Can anyone answer my question, rather than trying to be funny

[Darren B]

Ben

Th problem we have no one can understand why you you want a link to the page you on? Regardless of your SEO expertese it seems a pointless exercise

D

[TraceyHand]

Can anyone answer my question, rather than trying to be funny

ignore that lot!

I do this on my site because the breadcrumb trail also appears on my extended info pages and, for customers who arrived directly at those extended info pages from GoogleBase, it gives them a direct link back to the product listings page.

Anyway, open your design tab and click on the text you want linking.
It should take you to a layout called

"Standard This Section Name"

It probably only contains the SectionName variable.

Replace it with

<a href="<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20AND%0d%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e" ><actinic:variable name="SectionPageName" /></actinic:block><actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29%20OR%0d%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29" ><actinic:variable name="SectionURL" /></actinic:block>" target="_self"><strong><actinic:variable name="SectionName" /></strong></a>

You may want to style it a bit using your CSS, but you get the idea.

[benji_styler]

Thank you! ill give it a try. I wasnt asking for opinions just how to do someting lol

I belive it is good practice and it seems to work for our sites. Each to their own.

Thanks for your response, im under a bit of pressure to get this site finished.

[Darren B]

Ben never take anything to heart, we try to keep this forum witty, its to easy to become bogged down in work and become miserable b*****d use this place as light relief.

Oh and i notice you newish, try and give as much detail as possible always go's down well