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MacGuiver
Posted: Friday, February 23, 2007 5:17:52 PM

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Hi Brian,

Congratulations on finishing Sitemap Generator 4.0, it looks/functions a lot better than v3.0

After using Sitemap Generator 4.0 (updated download) for 2 days I have found a couple of interesting errors, here's the second...

The html version of the sitemap consists of 3 files (??) sitemap.htm (1kb), sitemap1.htm (12kb) and sitemap2.htm (2kb). Each file seems to contain only a portion of the sitemap. Also, many of the lines show (No title) while every single page on my website has a title...

If it will help, send me an email and I'll email the three sitemap.htm files to you to help you analyse the problem.

regards,
MacGuiver



regards,
MacGuiver
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KeyLimeTie
Posted: Saturday, February 24, 2007 1:12:49 PM
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This sounds to be working as designed. Here's how HTML sitemaps are generated:

- If you have 100 or less webpages, 1 sitemap page is created with all of the links. The page titles are displayed on the page with links to the pages.
- If you have > 100 webpages, 1 index page is created with links to subsequent pages. Each of the subsequenct pages will have 100 or less links. This is done because Google highly recommends having no more than 100 links per page.

Source: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

One thing I haven't publicized yet is that you can customize the design of the HTML sitemap pages.
In the "C:\Program Files\iArchitect\iArchitect Sitemap Generator v4.0\sitemaps\yourwebsite\" folder (or wherever you installed it), there are two files:
- htmlheader.htm - Header file for all HTML sitemaps
- htmlfooter.htm - Header file for all HTML sitemaps
(I just realized this file isn't created until you generate the HTML sitemap once...I will fix that).

Open these files and feel free to change anything. Then regenrate your sitemap so it matches your site.
Note: I added some default styles so you can see how to edit the look and feel. If you know CSS basics, it's very easy to modify how the page looks and how the links look. For a CSS refresher, see this webpage: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
MacGuiver
Posted: Sunday, February 25, 2007 8:02:48 AM

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Ok, I can live with that.

The ability to customize the header is a nice feature, but I'm not quite sure what I could use the footer for. What did you have in mind; a copyright statement, for instance, or links to disclaimers and that sort of thing?


regards,
MacGuiver
KeyLimeTie
Posted: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:15:46 PM
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The 100 links per page was recommended to me by several SEO firms that use the software. I am certain it's a good decision.
As for the footer...Yes, why not give you as much flexibility as possible? Copyright, links, whatever.
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