Designing and creating a website
8. Create a site map

Users can see how information is structured on a website by referring to a site map on the website. The purpose of this activity is to get you to sketch out your website's content in a site map.

If you would like to explore the concept of site maps further before starting this activity, we suggest you read a short article called What is a site map?

Follow these steps to complete these activities. Look for contexts that are meaningful to you in your classroom.

Work on your own (60 minutes).

• Using a similar method to those shown in the article What is a site map?, draw a site map of your website content outline.
• If you would like to, you can do this in graphic format. An outline or a table would be also sufficient. Your site map should include both the main headings for the sections in your website and the file names that you will use for these sections in brackets.
• Hyperlink all the content descriptions on the site map to the applicable files.

What is a site map?

Work on your own (60 minutes).

• Continue to research content and add content to your website.
• If you wish to create a new content page remember to:
  
  
  • use the template as your starting point and save the file under new name.
  • add the file to your site map.