A site map is a visual depiction of where your website pages are in the full hierarchy of your website. Your website should be divided into sections. Although a person can link away and travel to any page on the site, certain pages fall within specific user flows inside of each category.

You will use card sorting, competitive analysis, and team discussion to determine the overall architecture of your website. The site map may change, but you want something to start from so you can decide which team members will be in charge of which pages.

You only have to build five pages of your website by the end of the semester, but the site map can include other pages you may or may not build. Most site maps have the home page at the top and all the subsequent pages flowing from it according to logical flows users could take.

Example:

If you had the site map above, you might only end up building out Home, About, Contact, My Account, Bedroom, and Details. You would not build out Bedroom, Garage, Garden, and Kitchen because they will likely be the same layout. But you can still include those other pages in your site map just to demonstrate that you understand what a full website would need. We will discuss this in class.

Assignment Credit Requirements

• [ ] Site map must include at least 5 pages but may include more if you want to fully envision your website.
• [ ] Use https://www.gloomaps.com/ to build out your site map. (Alternatively, you are allowed to draw the site map on paper or use another tool. But Gloomaps is the easiest I’ve found.)
• [ ] The website must have at least three layers. It must start with your home page, go down to your top-level sections, and then include at least one layer under that for at least some of the top-level section pages.