{"id":4078,"date":"2012-05-16T12:20:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/format30.com\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2014-07-21T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T16:53:12","slug":"structuring-a-website-with-xmind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/format30.com\/en\/2012\/05\/16\/structurer-un-site-web-avec-xmind\/","title":{"rendered":"Structuring a website with XMind"},"content":{"rendered":"

All the specialists will tell you: the main problem when creating a website is the structure.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It's difficult to visualise the position of each page and the links between them. Mindmapping can help. And XMind, with its different formats, can take you one step further. Here's a demonstration.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Web designers' nightmare is the client who has a vague idea of what they want. Or who change their mind about the structure of their site more often than they change their shirt.<\/p>\n

It's quite normal, though. Not all of us are web writing specialists, so we sometimes find it hard to visualise the final structure of our site. A mindmap, with its highly hierarchical structure, can help. And if we use XMind<\/strong><\/em>, Not only can we make changes as we work, we can also present the results in different formats with a single click.<\/p>\n

A mindmap to get you started<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Let's take a simple example: the site of a shop selling Proven\u00e7al products. We already know that we'll have a reception<\/strong><\/em>, a page contact<\/strong><\/em>, one page links<\/strong> <\/em>and we are legally obliged to publish \u00ab\u00a0legal notices<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00bbon our site. We can therefore start the structure of our site in this way. We'll add to our map as we go along.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
First stage: the first 4 pages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The \"\u00a0Proven\u00e7ale<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00bbis a shop. We therefore assume that it sells products. We add a Products<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0to our structure. We will then fill it in. We can also present the company on another page.<\/p>\n

Complete the pages of your website<\/span><\/h2>\n

We are starting to complete the pages of our website:<\/p>\n

\"Adding<\/a>
Step 2: Company and Product pages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On page Company<\/strong><\/em>, we can add a Shop<\/strong><\/em>, which presents the physical shop, the point of sale.<\/p>\n

On our page reception<\/strong><\/em>, we can add :<\/p>\n