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Skill Level: Novice
Article by: Singer
Design
Number #5 - The Site Map
What is it?
The 'Site Map' allows you see where pages in your website are located.
This handy feature is ideal for medium to large sized websites which
contain alot of pages.
When using in a conversation?
"Hey Bain, look how big the Site Map looks for the new website
i am working on."
How do I use it?
In order to use the Site Map, you need to make sure first that you
define a Site in Dreamweaver.
Goto Site > New Site.
Give you site a name, point it to a folder then press the ok button.
Press F8 to pull up your site window. Before we can view the site
map, we need to at least create a home page file.
Create a new blank html file and save it as index.html. Go back
to your site window and on the right-hand side you should see your
index.html file. Right click on the file and set as homepage.
Now press Alt+F8 to pull up your site map. You should now see a
small page icon with index.html written underneath it. If you create
more empty html webpages you should also see it under your site
map window.
Once you have linked your pages in the site map window you can
export the site map as a graphic image.
File > Save Site Map.
When to use it?
Apart from using this tool when we start developing a website, we
use it to submit proposals to prospective clients.
What we do is build the site map using empty html files, then point
all the files to where they will be located and insert the site
map as a graphic into our proposals. This can look very professional
as it demonstrates that you understand what the Client is after.
Also it saves you alot of time if your not a speed freak using Photoshop.
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