Command: Create Generic Sitemap

Generates a Site Map based on the menu structure. The Site Map is exported into a simple .html file.

This is a very useful feature for two reasons:

1. It can make your web site "search-engine friendly" as search engine crawlers use internal links to spider a site and do not crawl javascript links. Having a "Site Map" link at the index page ensures that the most important pages of your web site are definitely seen by those crawlers.

2. It can be used for documentation by printing the menu structure. The Site Map (i.e. the menu structure) is saved into an .html file so you can print this .html file through your favorite browser/authoring tool.

You can select from a variety of options for the exact form of your Site Map. These include Links and Items, Items as Links, Only links or just the Items of the menu.

You can also select from a list of styles for the Site Map or of course you can create your own. To create your own style just enter your related .css file inside the /styles folder of your AllWebMenus installation.

Once the Site Map is created in simple html format you can use your favourite authoring tools to modify it and add the related code to your web pages.

Example:

The following site map has the same information as our menu located on our site. It was created using AllWebMenus by simply exporting its structure with the use of the "Create Site Map" Tool.

Site Menu