Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7（Second Edition）

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Creating a sitemap

Your sitemap lays out the overall structure of your website, acting as a blueprint for building. The sitemap is the foundation of your information architecture, which is a fancy word to describe the way in which visitors move around your site. Good information architecture is essential to enable your target audience to take the desired actions on your site. If visitors can't easily find what they need, they will leave in an instant.

Even if you start out by writing things on paper, it's a good idea to make an electronic version of your sitemap, because you will be able to copy/paste page titles directly into Squarespace later.

The card sorting technique can be a useful way to quickly map out your website structure. The following blog post explains the technique and how to use it: http://bit.ly/umh-pages-content

Some people like to use software such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, or Google Drive Drawings to layout their sitemap in a flowchart (organizational chart) style. Others prefer to use a word processor and create the sitemap as a text outline. Whichever way you choose, remember the following tips.