Pyramid
I’ve been using a funky little shareware tool to quickly create sitemaps for websites. It’s called Pyramid and is developed by a company called MindCad. It’s core function appears to be the creation of mindmaps, but it’s ideal to sketch out the architecture of a website. It’s so quick to do that I’ve actual used it in front of client to map out a site there and then.
The only downside is that it doesn’t export in a format which prints clearly. Typically I’ll write a proposal in Pages then drop in the sitemap from Pyramid. The only export image formats are PNG or TIFF (you can also export as OPML and RTF), which don’t print out too well. The only way round it is to save the Pyramid document as PDF (via Print), crop it in Preview, then embed it into the Pages document.
If the developers are reading this, please sort this out, and then you’ll have a perfect app!
Posted 4 years ago
Hi Phil,
Care to show us a (blanked out obviously) screenshot of how it outputs the sitemap?
*sigh* yet more fuel to the fire burning in my wallet which is screaming ‘buy a mac, buy a mac’ ..
Steve Woods · www · 4 years ago
Sure Steve. This is a screenshot of a recent sitemap -
http://www.xlab.co.uk/images/pyramid.gif
You can arrange the elements in many different ways, it just so happened this architecture was suited to a big hairy spider format ;-)
Phil · www · 4 years ago
Cheers Phil,
The looks pretty impressive, and to be honest looks like it’d be a huge timesaver - I currently do sitemaps manually in Visio, having not investigated any other method - heh
Might dust off the company credit card and have a play.
Steven Woods · www · 4 years ago
Aye, it’s no Illustrator or Freehand, but if you just need something to quickly build a sitemap it’s ideal.
Phil · www · 4 years ago