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Listed below are navigation structure recommendations.

Global navigation links must remain intact - don't remove them. These are the links to NMSU Home and Search.
The legal info link, located in the footer, must remain intact.
We recommend that the navigation bar links remain the same for all documents in the same directory.

If the navigation bar links must be different, separate documents into different directories.

The breadcrumb trail must lead the user back up to the NMSU home page through the administrative hierarchy of sites from your unit.
- In other words, if you are making the web site for an academic department, the breadcrumb trail must include your unit and your college.
We recommend that the breadcrumb trail continue all the way down your directory structure to the current directory, and that it do so consistently, so that going back up a level in the breadcrumb trail takes you up a level in the directory structure, and that the breadcrumb trail is identical except for the removal of the final link.
College–level units, and units which have sub-departments with their own separately–managed Web sites, are required to follow the recommendations above, so that there is a smooth navigational hierarchy from the university down to your sub–departments.

The directory structure of your site should mimic the hierarchical structure of your site.
We recommend that all directories in your hierarchical structure have index pages so that requesting a directory does not produce a "404 error."

For more information, contact Marketing Services between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. at 575-646-3221, or bip@nmsu.edu.