[Sigia-l] depicting lifecycle in site maps?

[Eric Scheid]

I've recently worked on a websites which was complicated by the fact that
there was a planned lifecycle involved: ie. the site at launch time was one
structure (for a given purpose/audience), time would pass, and the structure
of the site would need to change as the purpose for the site changed. The
amount of change wasn't that great, but I know of other sites where the
planned change over time would be much more drastic.

Thankfully, the site was relatively small and simple, and so planning out
the structure in a site map wasn't too complicated. I simply drew up the
whole site, with all pages from all stages of the lifecycle, and annotated
the nodes as to when they appeared/disappeared. I also split them into
different layers, so I could print out the site map as it would appear at
the various life cycle stages.
 
It got me thinking though ... how do others handle this problem?

e.