Mapping Web Sites
Planning Diagrams to Site Maps
Presented by Paul Kahn
Abstract
Today’s web site is a combination of a publication, a software application, and navigation system. Building such a complex product requires both verbal and visual analysis. Planning diagrams are an essential tool in the analysis process, helping a team understand the content and relationships that the design of a web site must represent.
Even with the best design, a web site is largely invisible and often difficult to grasp. As the web has grown as a publishing media, designers have struggled to find the equivalent of an index or table of contents for a web site. A web site is not a book, a magazine, a virtual city or a file system. We will explore the kinds of diagram that can visually represent a web site.
This seminar covers
The seminar includes demonstrations and comparison of the latest software tools and techniques for web developers, web masters and visitors to visualize web sites.
This course was first developed in October, 1996 and has been continuously revised since then. Every effort is made to keep these notes up to date and accurate. All comments are welcome. Please send mail to Paul Kahn. We invite you to attend our upcoming seminars or to schedule a custom presentation at your company. Please
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What Is a Map?
- Hand-made Site Maps 2
Two-level circular graphic
Three-level graphic
Metaphor graphic
Z-Factor diagram
- Current Research Prototypes
- Visual SiteMap (University of Kentucky)
Navigational View Builder (Georgia Tech)
H3: Directed Graphs in 3D Hyperbolic Space (Stanford)
CHEOPS: Complex Hierarchy Explorer (CRIM)
WebCutter (IBM Israel)
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