Site Navigation

The Leicestershire County Council Website has various navigations features which are designed to help you browse effectively.

Top Navigation | Breadcrumb Navigation | Left Navigation | Secondary Navigation

The primary navigation appears at the top of every page, and lists the main website themes.  To access one of these themes, simply click on the name or use one of the access key combinations.

The breadcrumb navigation is located under the primary navigation.  The breadcrumb navigation tracks the path you follow as you navigate our site. With just one click you can quickly navigate to any point or level on that path.

The contextual navigation is found on the left side of almost all pages. It serves two purposes;

To access a page, simply click on it's name.

Once you have selected the relevant heading from the left hand navigation, it will automatically be pulled out of the list of services and taken to the top of the navigation.  The heading above your selection is known as the parent page i.e. the main service area.  Below the parent page is the page you are on, in bold, followed by a drop down to the next level (if there is one available) displaying all the relevant options below (known as child pages and denoted by an arrow head), which can also have further options below them.  Below the child pages you will have a selection of further options relating to the main service area known as siblings.  For example within Help Page (the parent page) you will find Site Navigation (the page you are on) which will open up to display around 2 further options relating to it (the child pages) and below these are all the other service areas (the sibling pages).

Pages within the navigation are arranged in the most useful order (the most useful being at the top). Where the order of usefulness is not obvious, or the list of pages is becoming too long, they will be listed in alphabetical order.

The secondary navigation is found under the primary navigation, though it does not appear on every page.  To access a page, simply click on its name.  For example click on County Libraries to access the County Libraries pages.