Good Morning All And with excellent and valid feedback. The purpose of the Index on the Windows site is two fold and you hit the first one, to give the customer the opportunity to find content in generalized contextual categories. The second is to provide the search engines with context groupings to (hopefully) enhance the contextual relationship between the content items in these groupings. And, absolutely, a table of contents (TOC) was the foundation. However, unlike the static arrangement in a TOC (based on chapters in a book or content structure for a website), this index is based on content relationships.
I claim full responsibility for the experiment and will report back with usage statistics as soon as I can get them. marianne [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sachin Ghodke Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 10:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map - How important is it as a link? When I viewed what Oleh has done for Microsoft, it gave me the impression that I was looking at a table of contents / index of a book (no offense meant). A not so comfortable feeling when I was viewing it on the screen. This is my perception of the detailed (quite detailed) site map. But to be honest I feel it boils down to one thing - is it necessary? To my perception it is not, if the "navigation" (this certainly has many meanings after someone above mentioned so) is accurate. I would still say that the best use of site maps would be pre-development phase and use it as a tool among internal and external clients till the site goes live. Also Search is good enough for any user to get a local website listing to narrow further. Ah! "search" its another discussion! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33722 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
