[Sigia-l] Sitemaps

Thu Oct 2 02:53:06 EDT 2008

We've always created sitemaps (boxes and arrows) with three distinct
sections:

1 - the big sitemap with a home page box (0.0) and all the rest of the
hierarchy.

2 - global navigation (stuff that's on each page and is important, e.g.
search, contact, home). We label these functions as x.1, x.2 etc. "x"
represents EVERY page.

3 - secondary navigation (stuff that generally only shows up in the
footer, but is still on each page (privacy policy, mail to webmaster,
legal disclaimer, etc.). We label these functions as x.3, x.4 etc.

Special redundant links from the home page to highlighted content that
is already present in the main sitemap is diagramed as "staff positions"
leading off the home page (this is org chart vocabulary).

We don't sitemap page-specific contextual navigation.

BTW, we haven't used Visio or other "drawing" tools for years. Our
sitemaps are now strictly Word outlines. Fast to make and edit; easy to
understand.

Over the years, we've reduced our reliance on wireframes to a minimum as
clients don't generally understand them and tech integrators
occasionally want something more substantial in the way of
documentation. In fact today, our wireframes are often hand-drawn
sketches. AJAXy functions trigger a new hand-drawn wireframe to create a
kind of storyboard.

Cheers,
Eric Reiss
CEO
The FatDUX Group
www.fatdux.com

-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On
Behalf Of Juan Ruiz
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 01:30 AM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Sitemaps

Hi Chris,

I've had the same challenges as you described in your email. If I were
to put all the links coming out of a page on the sitemap, the document
will become a mess with all the lines connecting all over the place.

I decided then, for each sitemap, I add extra information that will help
represent how the navigation flow is (because the user can move and jump
from page to page). Besides the sitemap, I document the unique templates
(page templates that are being re-used on the CMS) and then I create a
navigation flow, which represents the various navigation systems the
website will have (top navigation, search & selectors, other navigation
classification, etc) and how the user will move from page to page.

With this information, the sitemap document becomes more robust, and
helps to visualize how all pages will be connected directly or
indirectly on the website.

Hope that helps,
Regards,

-Juan

-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Wright
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:19 AM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Sitemaps

I'm getting confused over the true purpose of a sitemap when displaying
an
organisation of information.

I draw site maps to show how the pages/entities or organised logically.
i.e. about us, work we do, and contact us are under the homepage.

however my global navigation will just show about us, and work we do...
not
contact us.  i use wireframes to show this.

however i would like to have a diagram that shows that on a particular
page
cross links to other pages.  the wireframes could do it, the site map
won't
... is there something i can use to show this organisation?

Cheers,

Chris

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