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April 01, 2005
Spruced-Up Site Maps
In the summer of 2003, while redesigning the University of Lethbridge Faculty of Management site, I reworked our site map using the practices I’d learned while studying web standards and related issues. As a result, the site map turned into a nested set of clean, streamlined, semantic unordered lists.
When you have a site that implements ideas from some of the best design minds on the web, you want to have a site map that offers better visual cues than a bulleted list. As I started to read articles like Dan Cederholm’s Mountaintop Corners and Icon Styled Headings, David Miller’s Zebra Tables and Mark Newhouse’s Taming Lists, I knew there were simple ways to spruce up certain elements of our website — and that our site map deserved some attention.
The thing I wanted most was a way to illustrate the site map’s parent-child relationships more clearly than the unstyled lists did. I decided that the most logical and intuitive way to represent this relationship would be to show parent elements as folders and child elements as files, and with this in mind, I attacked the markup.
Posted by Don at April 1, 2005 06:55 AM
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