Web Site Maps

Jerry Kuntz jkuntz at rcls.org
Fri Sep 19 12:05:00 EDT 1997


JQ Johnson wrote:
> 
> Louis Rosenfeld writes
> > I'm not crazy about site maps ... They tend to be hierarchically-
> >oriented, and don't do a good job of conveying non-hierarchical
> >navigation
> 
> I think Rosenfield correctly identifies a major problem with most typical maps,
> though the problem isn't inherent to the concept.

One way to break out of the hierarchies is to introduce "See Also"
references in the site maps. An example is our site map for LibraryLand:

http://www.rcls.org/libland/llmap.htm

Currently these are pointing to individual documents; but as the site
was structured in an earlier version, these were pointing to separate
anchors within documents.

			Jerry Kuntz
			Ramapo Catskill Library System
			jkuntz at rcls.org


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