Potentially very large site maps.

How do you handle them?

[georgeek]

When you have a very large number of content pages (say 50,000) what is the best way to structure the site map pages?

[Rosalind]

You have the choice between listing all the pages by dividing your site map up into a number of categories, or of only listing the major category pages and leaving out the most numerous pages further down the tree. So if you had 20 major categories, each with 20 sub-category pages leading to various individual item pages, you could skip listing the individual items. Otherwise you've got a 400-page site map, (assuming one page for each sub-category) which is a little unwieldy.

Structuring the site map is a matter of organising it all into categories in the same way you do with navigation, only you can get away with more links per page than the regular 7 or so you would normally be restricted to on the content pages.

[georgeek]

Thanks but was really looking for site map pyramiding techniques when ALL the content is at the bottom of the tree.

Has anyone got any examples of very large site maps they can point me too?