Web Terms and Abbreviations
Breadcrumbs: Breadcrumbs is a web navigation technique used to provide
trail of user locations within a website. It is originated from the trail of
bread crumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in a fairytale. The purpose breadcrumbs
within a webpage is to provide users a way to keep track of current webpage
location within the entire website. Breadcrumbs is usually shown hozontally
across near the top of a webpage below menu (or tab bar). Breadcrumbs provide
links back to parent category (or subcategory) that the user navigated through
to get to the current page. An example of breadcrumbs may look something like:
Home >> Webmaster Tools
>> Find My IP Address
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