Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

General Discussion

Posted by Reuben Shamlou
Reuben Shamlou
1,119 Points

Constructing a site-map for an interactive web page

Hi there,

First of all one of the best E-learning sites I have experienced!! Great work.

I am a third year degree student and planning to construct an interactive web page for my professional project. The fundamental idea is for users to build profiles to promote their services with the intention of acquiring more business. I am currently trying to put together a site-map to help communicate my business plan more effectively.

Could you please offer some advise on the best way to go about this and also any software suggestions you may have for construction?

Thanks for your time

7 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Sitemaps usually serve to function, one tell search engines such as Google about every page on your site using XML. You can create an XML sitemap here http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

Some sites create a sitemap webpage as a kind of table of contents for their site. Just as a table of contents doesn't necessarily list every section of a book a sitemap page doesn't have to list every page of your site for a visitor to click on. Just list the majors sections of your site.

Joseph Cahill
PLUS
Joseph Cahill
Courses Plus Student 4,739 Points
Joseph Cahill
Joseph Cahill
Courses Plus Student 4,739 Points

@Reuben

Try XML Sitemaps

Reuben Shamlou
Reuben Shamlou
1,119 Points
Reuben Shamlou
Reuben Shamlou
1,119 Points

Thanks for the prompt response. I think I may have wrote down the wrong terminology initial tho, rather than a sitemap I was thinking of a site schematic - to better communicate my idea to other designers, coders and assist with the development process of my web page.

Thanks for your time

Joseph Cahill
PLUS
Joseph Cahill
Courses Plus Student 4,739 Points
Joseph Cahill
Joseph Cahill
Courses Plus Student 4,739 Points

@Reuben

Maybe try looking into Mind Mapping software to express your ideas.

To get started: FreeMind Mind Mapping

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

To organize my thoughts I use a few different tools:

  • For mind mapping I use Mindomo
  • For collaborative diagrams I use Cacoo
  • Making lists of features I'm addicted to workflowy.
Stephanie Hider
Stephanie Hider
5,795 Points
Stephanie Hider
Stephanie Hider
5,795 Points

Thanks James for the workflowy link. Minus the lack of color I crave, it is perfect for organizing the four billion projects I have laid out to do this year.

Stephanie

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

@Stephanie - I'm a huge workflowy addict, at last check, if I exported my entire workflowy it would be over 6,000 lines long. The genius of workflowy is that it is simple to use, it only takes seconds to update it.

Syntax highlighting with code does make it easier to read but that's the only place I miss color.