Re: Multiple ways of accessing content

Skot Nelson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.chi-web
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Feb-28-2007, at 10:29 , Kev Burns wrote:

>     Is it okay to have
>        http://website.com/parenting/articles/8
>     and
>        http://website.com/schools/pta/articles/8
>     pull the same piece of content, but with a slightly different  
> display
> of navigation?

Yes. And even a good idea.

It's important to keep the user in the context in which *they* found  
the content. This means that if breadcrumbing is being done, the  
breadcrumbing should reflect the actual path the user took to the  
content as closely as possible.

The same basic rule should apply to navigation.

If you're going to change the user's 'context' it should be made  
obvious prior to the user following a link.
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