Update: Pretty sitemaps web structures
Shoutouts to Doug and Phil who’ve both mentioned this visually stunning piece of tech wizardry. Using Java it takes a URL (http://www.something.com), crawls it and displays the elements in a sitemap style fashion but with a touch of colour and a dash of flair thrown in for good measure.
General Webpage Structure (http://www.scottmallinson.co.uk)
Blog Structure (http://www.scottmallinson.co.uk/blog/)
What would be cool is if somehow they could be created as interactive sitemaps with navigable nodes (by clicking on them) and also Google sitemaps friendly. We all know that as much as XML is neat and tidy it lacks the flair and imagination of what is possible on the internet…true xslt can style it, but I honestly haven’t seen much done with it so far.
Fancy having a play, the tool and source code are available from http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/ I particularly like the collision detection of the nodes!
2 comments to “Update: Pretty sitemaps web structures”
Can you get it to display individual pages ? As far as i’m aware, its not a sitemap as such, its a visual representation of one page only and what tags appear on that page. I might be wrong, but that would mean you’d have to catalogue each page (although a script might be able to do that for you) in order to create a sitemap.
Douglas Radburn at 10.28 pm
on Tuesday 30th May 2006
On the flip side though, it would be cool to feed a program such as this WITH a sitemap. The Google sitemaps specification allows for a page ‘priority’ which could then be represented in different colours. I know it is said by Google that it is just a guide, but you could quickly AND visually see which pages IT thinks are important. Unless you build your own sitemaps :P
Douglas Radburn at 9.17 am
on Wednesday 31st May 2006