Chapter 15. Planning and Mapping Web Sites

The immense number of links to content such as Active Server Pages (ASPs), JavaScript, and countless graphic files can cause managing a Web site to be overwhelming. If, however, you have Microsoft Office Visio 2007, you have an extremely powerful tool to help you visually analyze your Web site’s data and content. It doesn’t matter whether your site is served by an intranet, the Internet, or a network staging area, you can automatically diagram every page, link, and piece of content and even control the level of detail to help you keep your site up to date.

Microsoft Office 2007 provides a Web Site Map template that maps your website in detail and offers a greater level of control with support for Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags, Java, Microsoft Office FrontPage 2007, Active Server Pages (ASP) scripts, and more. Office Visio 2007 supplies information about every link it encounters, including its target address and whether that target was available. You need not map your Web sites manually. With the interactive discovery feature in Visio 2007, you can map protected Web site areas if you have access rights. In short, this chapter shows you how to generate a Web site map with the contents you want and how to work with the results in Visio 2007.