Brian Donohue — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:52:30 GMT

Jon,

I’ve no idea how to post a document to this site, but I’d love to see an example of your Excel sitemap. We’ve recently struggled with the Excel-is-practical-but-Visio-looks-nice dilemma, so I’d like to see how your Excel solution found a happy medium. It does seem that putting the effort in to making an Excel sitemap look decent is a better solution to the problem discussed in this article. If we can avoid Visio altogether, and just update one document, that sounds ideal to me.

I’d be grateful if you could email your sample to bcdonohue at gmail dot com.

Brian Donohue — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:52:30 GMT

Jon—I just had a look at the Excel template you emailed me. I think it’s excellent. It provides at-a-glance visual clarity with the ease of updating (and creating).

And it looks professional enough to be an actual deliverable.

I really appreciate it.

Since you can’t post it here, I suggest you add it to the IA institute’s page of tools:
http://www.iainstitute.org/tools/

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Brian Donohue