There has been much interest and discussion about Content Managment Systems (the likes of Xoop, PostNuke, etc) and how to integrate them with Moodle. And there has also been much interest and discussion about the cookie-trail nav bar. May I propose an "Upper Nav Bar" as an improvement that may help both issues. Here are two screen shots, one showing my upper nav bar as normaly seen and one shot with the mouse over opening the menu.
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This upper nav bar contains links to only "non moodle" pages. This simple nav bar, though not a full fledged CMS, does provide some of the functionality of one. I think many of those wanting a CMS might find a nav bar like this will meet their needs. I did mine with javascript but I think a cascading style sheet would work better for Moodle. Couldn't a simple form be used to create cascading style sheet links and nav bar? Even sub nav and sub sub nav?
It's connection to the cookie crumb might be distantly related, but perhaps the added level of navigation might be used to give some clarity to the purpose and operation of the cookie crumbs.
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). Another button links to Moodle and three connect to other php scripts I use on the site (classifieds, contact, and newsletter). An option for something like student's links would be adding yet another script like phplinks.