Site Maps Question

[kevinj]

Is anyone aware of an app (other than the obvious Microsoft and Adobe products) that can be used to create Site Maps for potential clients? We are quoting on a few very large sites and wonder if there's an app that can save us some time in creating sample site maps for proposals.

Thanks.

[Reflect]

Here are a few (I broke the URL for the TOS)...

*://www.freefind.com/create-sitemap.html
*://www.xtreeme.com/sitexpert/
*://www.likno.com/sitemap.html

Brian

[Mohamed_E]

I might add Xenu to the list.

But I am not sure how useful a site map (for users) any automatic tool can provide. I use Freefind for site search, but do not use their site map feature, preferring to maintain my site map manually.

[pageoneresults]

For me, a well planned site map or site directory is the key to the kingdom.

I find that if I'm building larger sites, there are multiple site maps developed as each section of the site is built. These directory pages provide a table of contents for the visitor whether it be human or robotic. ;)

I don't believe there is any substitute for the manual touch in developing site maps. If the site in question is optimized from the core, then indexing should produce a very reasonable structure for a site map. You would need to pull titles and descriptions. You would also need to be able to group in sections. This is where specific metadata can be of great help.

Either way, if you find a tool to do the job and produce a site map (table of contents) for human consumption, then you should be fine.

[fwordboy]

DENIM its free

its the first search result on google for 'denim'