Greetings all, I was hoping I might be able to get some feedback from you regarding any tools out there that can crawl a site and create a site map that can be used on that site. I am a webmaster for a REALLY big site with tons of pages and would find it very easy if I could just click a magic button and have my site map completed instead of manually creating the page (and then having to maintain it).
Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide.
Jack Michaelson posted this at 13:40 — 14th February 2002.
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I assume you have some kind of plan or other documentation about navigation on the site? Or some kind of description of all links on the site or so. I'd say: Save this as HTML and use this as a sitemap. Not exactly a 'magic button' but it's better than typing it all out. Saves lots of work.
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Delmar posted this at 13:43 — 14th February 2002.
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Well here's the deal. The site uses a content management system that allows approved individuals from the hospital (roswellpark.org) to author/create pages. Because it's fluid it can (although it rarely does) change and I want to make sure that whatever is up is always current. The document you speak of does exist but it's already outdated since so many changes and additions have been made since the site launched in September.
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Gurudev posted this at 19:12 — 14th February 2002.
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There are scripts that can create this but if the site is huge, it will be very resource intensive and also because it is dynamically generated, your sitemap may contain links to all place that you may not want to publish for public view.
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Delmar posted this at 20:14 — 14th February 2002.
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Any chance of you humoring me and putting up a link where I can pull some of these scripts and take a look-see for myself?
reid.cx
mjames posted this at 23:12 — 14th February 2002.
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http://www.hotscripts.com/Perl/Scripts_and_Programs/Site_Mapping
taff posted this at 23:27 — 14th February 2002.
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I fished this one out of my bookmarks. I haven't used it in ages, I think there was something I didn't like about it:
http://www.netroglycerine.com/sitemap.html
Scrap the above - somethin fubar with it
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Dube posted this at 04:05 — 16th February 2002.
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Never used it but:
http://www.freefind.com/