WEB SITE DESIGN AND PROMOTION: SOFTWARE: The Why and How of the All Important Site Map

[David P. Dillard]

WEB SITE DESIGN AND PROMOTION: SOFTWARE:
The Why and How of the All Important Site Map

Site Maps are like a detailed table of contents for a book. They provide
people in a hurry, an apt description of a major segment of internet
users, with a quick assessment tool of the kind of content one may expect
to find on a website and the extent and nature of coverage of that website
of its topical purview. Here are some resources that show by discussion
and example the nature of sitemaps and list techniques and software
resources for the creation and design of sitemaps for internet websites.


San Diego Museum of Man
Lesson Plan
The Importance of Site Maps in Archaeology
<http://www.museumofman.org/html/lessonplan_sitemaps.pdf>


Title: Can You Dig It?: Mapping the Squirrelasaur Site

Author: W. ONeal, Jefferson Middle School, 101 N. Gammon Rd.,
Madison, WI 53717...@itis.com

Grades: 7-8
<http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~museum/hughes/Squirrelosaur.htm>


The Semiotic Art of Web Sitemaps
George L. Dillon
University of Washington
(On-line version; print version in Discourse Studies in Composition,
edited by Ellen Barton and Gail Stygall, Hampton Press, 2002:331-52.)
<http://courses.washington.edu/hypertxt/cgi-bin/portpan/>


Sitemaps and Site Indexes: What They Are and Why You Should Have Them
by Chiara Fox
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/sitemaps_and_site_indexes_
what_they_are_and_why_you_should_have_them.php>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://snipurl.com/dnk8>


The problem(s) with sitemaps.
<http://www.evolt.org/article/evolt/4090/710/>


Dada Photomontage and net.art Sitemaps
George L. Dillon
University of Washington
dil...@u.washington.edu
[published in PostModern Culture 10:2 (2000) ]
2000 George L. Dillon
<http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/
rhethtml/dadamaps/dadamaps2b.html>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://snipurl.com/dnka>


Nielsen Norman Group Report:
Site Map Usability:
28 design guidelines based on usability studies with people using site
maps [Fee Based Publication]
<http://www.nngroup.com/reports/sitemaps/>


The Sitemap
The Apache Software Foundation
<http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/concepts/sitemap.html>


Preliminary Findings on the Use of Sitemaps
By Michael Bernard
Usability News 1999
<http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/1W/Sitemaps.htm>


Index Generator
A free HTML index generator. The index generator effortlessly indexes
your website, creating sitemaps, A-Z indices, image lists, file lists,
etc..[More]
<http://www.tildemh.com/sw/idgen/index.shtml>


Anti-Scientology and Dianetics Sitemaps
+
Anti-Cult Sitemaps
<http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/
Anti_Scientology_Sitemaps.html?FACTNet>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://snipurl.com/dnkg>


Linkscan
<http://www.elsop.com/linkscan/>


Intel Sitemaps
<http://www.intel.com/english/intel/nav/sitemaps.htm>


State Portals: Sitemaps
<http://www.statelocalgov.net/notes/2004/08/state-sitemaps.htm>


World's Best SiteMaps (ever used on the Web)
<http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/Navigation/Sitemaps.htm>


Cool site maps
<http://www.montague.com/review/sitemaps.html>


Sitemaps
<http://grdc.bafg.de/servlet/is/1899/>


Sitemaps and Hypertext Links: Food for Search Engine Robots
By Daria Goetsch - March 11, 2003
<http://www.searchengineguide.com/goetsch/2003/0311_dg1.html>


Design>Web Design>Information Design>Sitemaps
<http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Design/
Web-Design/Information-Design/Sitemaps>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://snipurl.com/dnkk>


RDF Sitemaps
RDF sitemaps using HTML link types and Dublin Core
Author: Dan Brickley
Date: 26th January 1999
Version: first draft
Latest Version: http://purl.org/net/rdf/papers/sitemap/
<http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf-dev/purls/papers/sitemap/>


Thinking Differently About Site Mapping and Navigation
January 17, 2005 | 29 Comments
<http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/archive/2005/01/
thinking-differently-about-site-mapping-and-navigation>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://snipurl.com/cg4j>


Fortune 500 Revisited: Current Trends in Sitemap Design
By Mark C. Russell
Usability News 2002
<http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/42/sitemaps.htm>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://snipurl.com/dnkl>


Sitemaps, storyboards, and specifications: a sketch of Web site design
practice
ACM PORTAL
Full text Pdf (570 KB)
Source Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems archive
Proceedings of the conference on Designing interactive systems: processes,
practices, methods, and techniques table of contents
New York City, New York, United States
Pages: 263 - 274
Year of Publication: 2000
ISBN:1-58113-219-0
Authors Mark W. Newman Group for User Interface Research, Computer
Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
James A. Landay Group for User Interface Research, Computer Science
Division, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Sponsor SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
Publisher ACM Press New York, NY, USA
<http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=347758>


Software & Services for Checking Links & Creating Site Maps
<http://www.elsop.com/wrc/comp_ls.htm>


Scripts to Create Site Maps for Your Web Site
<http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/tips/
webdesign/scripts_to_create_site_maps.php3>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://snipurl.com/dnjh>


The Importance of Sitemaps
<http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/tips/
webdesign/the_importance_of_sitemaps.php3>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://snipurl.com/dnjg>


Usability Tip: Give Visitors A Map
by Larisa Thomason,
Senior Web Analyst,
NetMechanic, Inc.
<http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol5/usability_no20.htm>


Site Mapping
<http://irisresearch.library.cornell.edu/VRC/catmap.html>

The better the sitemap, the more useful the web resource.

Here are some published sources about the sitemap.


Reasoning for Web document associations and its applications in site map
construction.
Candan, K. Seluk; Li, Wen-Syan.
Data and Knowledge Engineering
November 2002 v. 43 no. 2 p. 121


Web navigation and the behavioral effects of constantly visible site maps.
Danielson, David R.
Interacting with Computers
October 2002 v. 14 no. 5 p. 601


DENIM: Finding a Tighter Fit Between Tools and Practice
for Web Site Design
James Lin, Mark W. Newman, Jason I. Hong, James A. Landay
Group for User Interface Research, Computer Science Division
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 USA
+1 510 643-3043
{jimlin, newman, jasonh, landay}@cs.berkeley.edu
<http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~newman/research/pubs/DENIM-chi-2000.pdf>


The Designer's Outpost: A Task-Centered
Tangible Interface for Web Site Information Design
Scott Klernmer, Mark W. Newman
Group for User Interface Research
Computer Science Division
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 USA
+1 510 643-3043
{ srk, newman } @cs.berkeley.edu
Raecine Sapien
Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-3112 USA
+1 409 862-3217
rsapien @cs.tamu.edu
<http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/640000/633493/p333-klemmer.pdf?
key1=633493&key2=2477571111&coll=
GUIDE&dl=ACM&CFID=40742700&CFTOKEN=74620115>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://snipurl.com/dnkw>


Look Before You Click: A Relation Browser for Federal Statistics Websites
Gary Marchionini1, Ben Brunk1, Anita Komlodi2, Fred Conrad3, & John
Bosley3
Interaction Design Lab,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill1,
University of Maryland2 & Bureau of Labor
Statistics3
[march, brunkb]@ils.unc.edu, kom...@glue.umd.edu, [conrad_f,
bosley_j]@bls.gov
<http://www.ils.unc.edu/~march/asis2000/look_before_you_click.pdf>


A Fast Focus+Context Viewing Technique for
Web Navigation
Quang Vinh Nguyen
Faculty of Information Technology
University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
Mao Lin Huang
Faculty of Information Technology
University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
<http://ideal.cecs.missouri.edu/IMC/papers/1040IC.pdf>


Toward an Agileviews WWW Sitemap Kit:
The Generalized Relation Browser
Benjamin Brunk and Gary Marchionini
[brunkb,march]@ils.unc.edu
Interaction Design Lab
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
<http://www.ils.unc.edu/ils/research/reports/relation_browser.pdf>


Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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