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Subject:Re: Constructing site maps From:Christi <christi -at- sageinst -dot- COM> To:Patricia Jackson <patrj -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 15 May 2000 12:10:43 -0700
(previous messages quoted below)
I don't want to be part of a "me too" thing, so I'll expand a bit.
First, I saw what Dan saw-- nothing even similar to a site mape. On a Mac
and on Window, both using Netscape.
Unless, perhaps, the "site map" is the brief line above the "weird sort of
graphic with lines moving up and down" that says
Soda product development art for architecture arts and research
But this, to me, is not a site map. A site map should give a map of the
_whole_ site, not just the top level.
At first, I thought that this was an issue of "knowing your audience". I
thought maybe there was something about Patricia's system that Dan's system
didn't have and she was probably their "audience".
However, now, I think it is an issue of terminology. I think we might be
using the same word to mean things.
Just my thoughts.
Christi Carew
Technical Writer
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Patricia Jackson wrote:
>> Well, it worked for me on Netscape 4.7
Dan Emory wrote:
>>> Certainly not the best, and possibly the worst. When I open it in IE5 on a
>>> WIN 98 machine,
>>> I see nothing resembling a site map. ...
