[Sigia-l] Can you recommend site mapping program?; also look for words of wisdom

[Dan.Chamberlain at dom.com]

Janet,

Like you we are in the middle of a redesign. We began by bench marking our
current state. Two very useful tools were Visio and Xenu. Visio has a tool
which will crawl your site giving you a very detailed map. You will need
human intervention because it shows everything, css, .jpg and all others.
Xenu (http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html) was used to create a
content matix (inventory), it's very fast. You'll also need an analyst to
review the data.

As for how to project manage a web site redesign. Look into hiring a
project manager. It will be well worth your time. Call me if you want to
discuss.

Cheers

Dan Chamberlain
Internet Strategy
Dominion Resources
701 East Cary Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
804.771.4629
8.736.4629
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sigia-l-bounces at asis.org wrote on 02/05/2009 01:22:54 PM:

> Hello,
> I've been reading this list off and on for a while
> and now I really need some advice. I'm in charge of
> creating an information architecture and a content
> strategy for a large site in a small university.
> We have 7000 or 8900 pages, depending on what
> PowerMapper says.
>
> My first question is does anybody know what other
> software I can use to get a reliable page count
> and site map
> other than PowerMapper? Our manager decreed that
> we use this because she used it. But I'm finding that
> the page count is unreliable, and sometimes
> mysterious problems arise for which the PowerMapper
> tech support guy doesn't have a solution. I need something else to
> get a baseline site map, and it can't cost a lot. I want
> to be able to easily change the sitemap as the
> site structure changes.
>
> My second question is to ask for tips on how to proceed
> from those
> of you that have done such a big task. I don't have
> much of a team: myself and the manager
>  in charge of the web developers
> are mostly it, although we just snagged one
> of the university's senior librarians
>  for our core team (yes!). He's mostly going to
> be concerned with helping pick the content mgmt
> system we end up using, but he has quite a bit
> of experience in IA. Most of the
> initial stages will be my job, however.
>
> If you have any words of wisdom, I'm game to hear
> them. I am re-reading the polar bear book on Info
> Architecture, a little of which I read in grad
> school where I got my degree in Instructional Technology.
> My background is in organizing technical information
> as a technical writer. So I'm not afraid of a
> whole bunch of information. I just don't want to
> get buried without a plan to get out.
>
>  Janet Wallace
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