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Site Mapping

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007 - 12:36 pm
  • ajwilso5

I need to map a website, but the site requires a person to login to sections and some links can only be accessed via a particular context (such that you cannot access screen x without having done y).  Furthermore, most of the content is all dynamic too.  Traditional crawlers would only get a basic view of the site because of this, so I need something more comprehensive.

 Has anyone has seen a tool that might be able to help?

 Thanks in advance,

 

Monday, June 25th, 2007 - 1:05 pm
  • cscholtz
  • cscholtz's picture

I assumg you're talking about creating a site map web page with links, yes?  But I still have a lot of questions.  What exactly is the goal of this site map?  And what web platform are you using?  ASP.NET, PHP, CF, etc.

Do you want the site map page to have a link for every possible page on your site?  If not, how are you determining which pages should be included on the site map page?

Do you want authenticated users to see a different site map page than anonymous visitors and search engines?

cheers,

Cameron

Monday, June 25th, 2007 - 2:07 pm
  • ajwilso5

Cameron,

Sort of. I want this as a training tool for others, and for me because I get lost in this application myself. Ideally I would like something that I can just show visually, like a visio document of sorts. The application is a vendor app, written in asp.net / vb.net.

I would like to see everything on the site.

Lastly, the non-auth users don't get to see anything. This is just a reference tool.

-A