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Forum: Briefing Topic: Site Map. Top sites of 2008 started by: Zaxsdcxs Posted by Zaxsdcxs on Jan. 04 2008,17:21
< index sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > A site map (or sitemap) is a graphical representation of the architecture of a web site. [1] It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site. < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > While some developers argue that site index is a more appropriately used term to relay page function, web visitors are used to seeing each term and generally associate both as one and the same. However, a site index is often used to mean an A-Z index that provides access to particular content, while a site map provides a general top-down view of the overall site contents. < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > Google introduced Google Sitemaps so web developers can publish lists of links from across their sites. The basic premise is that some sites have a large number of dynamic pages that are only available through the use of forms and user entries. The sitemap files can then be used to indicate to a web crawler how such pages can be found. Since MSN, Yahoo, Ask, and Google use the same protocol, having a sitemap lets the four biggest search engines have the updated page information. Sitemaps do not guarantee all links will be crawled, and being crawled does not guarantee indexing. However, a sitemap is still the best insurance for getting a search engine to learn about your entire site. < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > The intent of web design is to create a web site -- a collection of electronic files that reside on a web server/servers and present content and interactive features/interfaces to the end user in form of Web pages once requested. Such elements as text, bit-mapped images (GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs), forms can be placed on the page using HTML/XHTML/XML tags. < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > Improvements in browsers' compliance with W3C standards prompted a widespread acceptance and usage of XHTML/XML in conjunction with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to position and manipulate web page elements and objects. Latest standards and proposals aim at leading to browsers' ability to deliver a wide variety of media and accessibility options to the client possibly without employing plug-ins. < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > < html sitemap > With growing specialization within communication design and information technology fields, there is a strong tendency to draw a clear line between web design specifically for web pages and web development for the overall logistics of all web-based services. < html sitemap > < html sitemap > |