PowerMapper

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PowerMapper is a web crawler that automatically creates a site map of a website using thumbnails of each web page. A number of map styles are available, although the cheaper Standard edition has fewer styles than the Professional edition.

[edit] Map styles

Site maps can be displayed in a number of different map styles which arrange sites into a tree structure. Some styles display thumbnails for each page, others use text-only presentation. Map styles include:

• Electrum - a simple thumbnail map style
• Electrum 2.0 - a variation of the Electrum style that works better on larger sites
• Isometric - a thumbnail map style using a pseudo-3D isometric projection
• Page Cloud - a thumbnail map style with pages clustered into 3D clouds
• Skyscrapers - an abstract representation of pages that looks like city blocks
• Thumbtree - a heirarchical thumbnail map style
• Table Map - a plain text list of pages in a table
• Table of Contents - a plain text list of pages
• Tree View - an expanding table of contents

Site maps can also be exported in XML sitemaps format for use by the Google, Yahoo and MSN search engines.

[edit] Reviews

The product received positive reviews in InfoWorld ^[1] for the 1.0 release in 1997, and subsequent reviews for the 4.0 release in Microsoft Technet Magazine ^[2] and WebsiteTips.com ^[3] were also favorable.

A list of problems commonly encountered by users is provided by the vendor in the PowerMapper FAQ.

[edit] Licensing

PowerMapper is commercial licensed software which uses serial numbers to prevent unlicensed usage. Standard licensing is per-user, but pooled floating licences are also available at extra cost.

[edit] See also

• Site map, a graphical representation of the architecture of a web site
• Sitemaps, a standard for URL inclusion in search engines

[edit] References

1. ↑ Webmasters utility produces navigation aids automatically - InfoWorld
2. ↑ Map Your Site's Structure - Microsoft Technet Magazine
3. ↑ Software for Information Architecture, Sitemapping