Designing a website requires a good deal of pre-planning. Even the simplest sites with only a small amount of content needs to be clear to understand, natural to navigate, and make a connection as quickly as possible to a target audience. That requires knowing what content will be on the site, how you want to organize it, and being clear about the pathways your users might follow to get to what they want. ![[sitemap.jpg]] The example shown here indicates a website with a three landing pages, main content pages (3 of which have subsequent pages) and one external link. Many pages are also cross-linked. - Landing pages are the user's first experience with a site. In this case there are 3 possible landing pages; - Home - Privacy Policy - 404 (File Not Found) - Content pages are the pages that can be navigated to from any landing page, and may have multiple sections. They may also have connecting content pages. - Crosslinks are links from one area of the website to another. - Action pages are those pages who provide a manner for the user to interact directly with the website owner. For basic websites, these are the most common types of pages, and you can depict them graphically as you see above. # Your Task Create a sitemap for an already existing site: https://rioalto.ca. Investigate the entire site for every landing page, content page, crosslink, and action page you can find, and depict them in a graphical layout such as the example above. You can complete this graphical layout in Google Slides, Canva, or any other visual tool you have access to, but the final result must be posted in Google Classroom. # Marks - Presenting - 15 marks - Connecting - 15 marks