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Site Map Construction Tools?

Posted by Cliff on from the mapping-your-part-of-the-web dept.

twjordan is looking for a tool to assist in the construction of Web site maps. He asks: "I thought about it and looked all over the Web and I couldn't seem to find any software that would do the trick. Does anyone know of any site mapping software that, if it doesn't do this on the fly, will at least allow one to browse a directory and choose files for inclusion in the map?"

3 comments

  1. sitemgr by waynem77 · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I want to admit to this, but...

    I have written an auto-indexing tool (sitemgr) for websites. The catch is, it doesn't index existing websites. It parses textfiles that I have written, converts them to HTML, and indexes them. I've released it under the GPL.

    You can download it from http://www.tiac.net/users/way nem/downloads/index.html, and you can see examples of the output at http://www.tiac.net/users/waynem/ and sometimes http://white-fang.ne.mediaone.net/. It may not be what you're looking for but... there it is, I guess.

  2. Use RDF... by hodeleri · · Score: 1

    Resource Description Framework (RDF) and some Perl/PHP/scripting language of choice to represent a sitemap. You can autogenerate the RDF file via a script and plug it right into anything you want. You can also use this for a mozilla sidebar panel to have a tree navigation view of your site.

    Links:



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  3. A couple by jeroenb · · Score: 2
    I was actually looking for the same thing a while so I collected some links. Here they are:
    • Index Generator 2.0 is a freeware Windows-tool which has an easy interface and is fairly powerful too. The website is horrible though :)
    • LinkScan 7.2 is a commercial tool for Unix/Windows that has a free evaluation version available. Haven't tried it out, does seem to have loads of features.
    • Tree.pl is opensource and therefor easily customizable, but doesn't have too many features standard, so a good basis if you know Perl.
    Hope this helps...