Sitemaps & wireframes

Sitemaps: 


A sitemap lists all of the URL's for a website 

list of all pages of a website 
3 main types: 
used during planning 
The sitemap available for people viewing the website
A structure (coded) list designed for search engines 

Wireframes:


A wireframe is a blueprint of a website 

A visual representation of the framework of a website 


Advantages:
- to help arrange the site for a specific purpose 
- Shows the website layout 
- shows how different elements of the site interact with each other 


Disadvantages: 
Docent focus on colours, style or graphics 
focus = functionality - what it does, not how it looks 
Can be hand drawn sketches or completed via online software 
Created by: business analyst, user experience designers, developers and visual designers 
expertise required: interaction design. information architecture and user research  

Site map:
Don't need to annotate 
Contact and login at top

2) wireframe for the homepage of your site on a computer 

Wire frame:
X means image 
Must annotate image 






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