Best tool for drawing sitemaps?
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Drawing up sitemaps is one of those tasks that seems to take me twice as long to do electronically that it does on paper. Unfortunately, sitemaps scribbled on sheets of A4 paper aren't much good for sending and sharing.
So, Mozzers, what tool or software do you recommend for drawing up sitemaps quickly and easily?
So far I've tried using Visio, Excel and Word but if there's a dedicated tool out there, that would be awesome.
Thanks in advance,
Cheers
James -
are you able to generate a website diagram based off a sitemap.xml ?
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I've gone back to visio. I know it isn't cheap, but I worked out that the other tools were losing me more money in waasted time.
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While its not made specifically for sitemaps, but for small to medium sites we use MindNode for mac, Its a really easy to use tool. Clients seem to like the look of it also. Its also free!
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http://writemaps.com/ hands down. Its a free online tool.
You can also search for "free visual sitemap generator" on Google
Thanks,
Vahe
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Or if you are Win user, you can use Dia. It looks really ugly, but its free and relatively capable.
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If you are mac user, try OmniGraffle. One of the best tools, I've evere worked with.
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