Week9 Outside of Class

For homework we had to take our content audits and findings from the closed and open sorts in order to make a sitemap to show the content of the site. I took the information and put it into a table of contents. I combined some things but also got rid of some things after realizing that they are unnecessary. After conducting closed and open sorting I came to the conclusion that some things should be combined. What I saw in the open study was that when the participants saw that there were different types of meat they not only separated the type of meat but also put all things pertaining to that meat in that category. I originally had a category with meat information. This was condensed under "Meat" because that information would be under the type of meat it pertains to instead of being on a separate page. I also saw that there were multiple pages pertaining to either goat, buffalo, or elk under combination packs. This was condensed based on the study. The study showed that things could be condensed that were redundant. One participant decided that some links weren't even necessary at all. Something else I noticed from the study was that almost all of the participants put the "shopping cart" card off and alone by itself as well as shipping. Based on the user's preferences I put them as single pages off of the home page. This is what I came up with:

ElkUsa Site Map

1.0.0 Home

1.1.0 Shopping Cart
1.2.0 Shipping Information
1.3.0 Email Us

2.0.0 Meat

2.1.0 Buffalo Meat

2.2.0 Elk Meat

2.3.0 Rabbit Meat

2.4.0 Goat Meat

2.5.0 Rainbow Trout 
2.6.0 Deer Meat

2.6.1 Red Meat

2.6.2 Fallow Meat

2.6.3 Whitetail Meat

3.0.0 Combination Packs

3.1.0 Buffalo Packs

3.2.0 Elk Packs

3.3.0 Goat Packs

3.4.0 Combination Meat Packs

4.0.0 Recipes

4.1.0 Venison Chef’s Guide

4.2.0 Venison Recipes

4.3.0 Buffalo Recipes

4.4.0 Buffalo Cooking Tips

4.5.0 Goat Recipes

4.6.0 Cookbooks

5.0.0 Specials

5.1.0 Rich’s Bulk Bargain Barn

5.2.0 Elk Ivory

5.3.0 Velvet Antler

5.4.0 Dog Items

5.5.0 High Country Pies
5.5.0 Organic Granola

6.0 Contact

I also worked on creating my visual site map. Based off of the table of contents I created a site map. designated colors for different pages. I start with my home page with the shopping cart and shipping information coming off of it to show that it is on the home page. I then have my primary navigation in yellow.The primary navigation is its' own color because I want to show that it is separate from all of the other levels. Off of each navigation I having pink boxes to symbolize static pages. Since my car sorting showed that I should group things according to type of meat, I decided to group the types of venison under deer meat. I have a tertiary level with three links off of the parent page. I also have a dynamic page which symbolizes a page that can be changed. The email is also represented by the little letter to show that it is a "mail to" link.