[Sigia-l] Site Map/Index - as Site Element

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Elizabeth Fuller:
>     In fact, I often use the site maps on large corporate sites because
> it's much faster to scan a single page with all the links on it, nicely
> organized by category, than it is to click through six or seven
> top-level menus, looking for the sub-menu and path that will eventually
> take me to the page I want...especially if the menus are fly-outs or
> flash-based.

You pretty much described what's wrong with the UI, for which you propose
the sitemap as a remedy.

The remedy is to *not* design "large corporate sites" with "six or seven
top-level menus" especially if they are "fly-outs or flash-based."

The horse, the cart, etc.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba 

P.S. I am not against densely designed points of departure per se (a sitemap
often falls into that category), I'm, however, against using a sitemap as a
crutch when redesigning the main navigation would be the better solution.