A site map is diagrammatic representation of the structure of your website. It shows how the website is arranged or organized into pages, sections and sub sections. It is much like an organisational structure chart that shows how your company is organised. Below is a theoretical sitemap for a website.

 

	Web Ed automatically generates a site map of your web site for you.
	The site map is a useful tool as it gives you an overivew of all pages on the web site, whether the page is online or not. When filling out the content of your web site it is useful to work from the site map page.
	Site Maps appear differently to your visitors as they do to a logged in administrator of the website.
	The site map functions like a viewable page on your website when in EDIT mode.
	The site map icon is located at the bottom of the screen:
An example of a sitemap The sitemap appears differently for visitors and for logged in users of the website. This is how the sitemap appears for visitors who are not logged in as administrators. This is how the sitemap appears for administrators when logged in.

The sitemap gives a fast way to move around your site. You can also edit or create new pages as required.