[Sigia-l] site mapping a live site

[Anders]

not sure what your reason is for wanting to generate a
site map, but if it's for the purpose of
updating/defining an information architecture (i.e.
creating an IA site map), you will likely not find a
site map with 2000 pages useful
(if this is for a end user-facing site map, the story
is a little different) - the site map that is
generated by these tools include every instance of a
template that might appear in an IA's site map - so if
you've defined a template for, say, a type of product,
and there are 1000 of those products on the site,
you'll get 1000 little page icons in your site map -
not very useful.  Personally, I've found generating a
site map of an existing site (no matter how large)
manually to be faster, more reliable, and therefore
also more useful - remember, even if the tool you're
using generates something that is reasonably ok,
you're still going to need to tweak it, which might
take you just as long as creating it by hand

I use the org chart tool in Visio - which allows me to
generate IA site maps quickly and/or update them
quickly as needed

-Anders

--- wendy cown <wcown at cloud9.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've reviewed the archives a bit and learned about
> software which can 
> make a site map, such as PowerMapper and the Visio
> automapping tool.  I 
> corresponded with PowerMapper and it seems larger
> than 1500 the results 
> are buggy.  I'm not sure what results I'm going to
> get with Visio for a 
> larger site, around 2000 pages.
> 
> Does anyone have experience making a site map of a
> live site that is 
> around 2000 pages or larger that they're willing to
> share with me?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Wendy
> -----
> Wendy Cown
> Information Architect
> wcown at cloud9.net
> 917-204-0956
> 
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