GDES-315 fall 2023 / David Ramos, American University Design

Tips for site maps

Making effective site maps

A site map is a tool for explaining the organizational structure of the information on a website at a level higher than the single page.

Tips

Aside: please call the major areas of a website sections. It’s fine for a non-professional user to talk about “tabs,” but you should aim for more precision.

Examples

All of these are slightly too simple for the Publishing systems project. GGWash needs a larger list of subsections/topics.

an example sitemap that is fluid
an example sitemap that is gridded and rectilinear
an example sitemap that is fluid