I'm in the same situation, and have worked with enterprise portals
over the past several years, which share the same problem (lots of
things on each page, and each person can add/remove/change widgets/
pages/gadgets and whole environments if they want).
For the pre-work on our current project, I put together a concept map,
instead of a direct site-map. I divided the site into distinct
"clouds" and placed common tools into each according to roles. My
main site map gave a high-level overview and delineated all of the
"locked down" pages that help with site admin and general company
information, but when it got down to the user-interaction level, the
"clouds" illustrated which tools were available to each group, without
trying to show they were in specific pages at any given time.
The site map served well to plan the development for the project, and
helped the execs & user groups make sure we didn't forget anything in
certain areas, because they could see where their roles were in the map.
Don't know if that's what you're looking for, but hopefully it helps...
Bryan Minihan
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On Jun 11, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:
Good Morning,
My current project is a social network. I'm actually having some
trouble
putting together a good site map because so many features seem to
either
overlap, or more importantly, one page will support multiple
features. There
is much less of a "page" paradigm, it's so much more the interactive
behavior of the users. For example, on Facebook's profile page, I
can do so
many different things - especially if I have added any applications.
Have any of you faced this, and if so, how did you tackle site
mapping? It's
not that I find the site map such a huge crucial piece of the
puzzle, but
it's something our stakeholders will want to see. It's also been
tricky with
the wireframing and organizing each page as well. Any tips are
appreciated.
Tom
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