Mind map analysis: Website content map

By Chuck Frey

Website mind maps are a great planning tool for site developers, because they can clearly show the hierarchical relationships between web pages, as well as other types of relationships that cut across the page hierarchy (using relationship lines).

This example from the XMind map gallery is particularly well done. It is well organized and communicates the structure of its subject website very clearly – even though part of the map is in French. There is much to like about how this mind map is designed, which we will analyze in my latest report in the Effective Mind Maps series.

In these reports, I deconstruct visual maps and analyze what’s good about them and what could be improved – all in the interest of helping you to understand the principles of effective mind map design.

To access this report, you must first login to the Mind Mapping Insider area. If you don’t have one, please click here to learn how to get one.

Comments (5)

Logging you in...

Dashboard | Edit profile | Logout

Logged in as

School Resources Part Six: Mind Mapping and Charting Websites « Eduhowto

[...] Mind map analysis: Website content map (mindmappingsoftwareblog.com) Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Five Project Resources My Students LoveSimple to Use Online Video EditorThree criteria for effective online learningThe Water Cycle [...]

+1 Vote up Vote down

cabre 22p · 744 weeks ago

MindManager is a great tool for this. Many years ago I mapped out parts of the Ecademy web site. This enabled me to get to the pages I used quickly and for others to find pages they have never heard off.

They are quick to construct with MindManager, you just drag the favicon in the address bar or a hyperlink on the web page to the map. A topic is created with the title text of the web page as the topic text and a hyperlink.

You can also create maps with hyperlinks from many web sites and show how they are linked by hyperlinks or types.
http://www.cabre.co.uk/maps/ecademy.html
Some links are no longer valid and some required you to be logged in as me.

0 Vote up Vote down

Rich, Web Designer · 743 weeks ago

I suspect that by the time you are doing development that a UML diagram might be more appropriate than a mind map, though it does look an effective way of sketching out a site for a client at the stage before that.