Website Structure Visualization

[David Holt]

OmniGraffle will import a simple Graphviz .dot file with no problem, 
though you may have to do some tweaking of the diagram afterwards. Look 
up GraphViz in the OmniGraffle help pages for a complete list of the 
tags that OG supports in the .dot file.

David

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On 14 Feb 2005, at 2:02 PM, Robert wrote:

> Ok, I found the program I was thinking of - Graphviz 
> <http://www.pixelglow.com/graphviz/>.  Unfortunately, it doesn't do 
> what you want.
>
> With a little googling, I found this: 
> <http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/taxonomy/term/126> which will generate 
> a GraphViz output from a site and an SVG output.  I don't think 
> OmniGraffle will import GraphViz, but it might import SVG.  Or... you 
> might be able to find another tool to convert to something that 
> OmniGraffle WILL import.
>
> Robert
>
> On Feb 14, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Forrest Corbett wrote:
>
>> Short answer, no. AFAIK.
>>
>> I searched the archives a while back and found that answer. To map it 
>> there is an app called, IIRC, Site Orbiter. That will output a PDF of 
>> the site structure.
>>
>> *scratches head*
>>
>> Ya know, I did just get ten copies of Visio and my understand is it 
>> does what you want. I could install it and run the URL for you, then 
>> send you the Visio file. I'm pretty sure OG should be able to import 
>> it.
>>
>> -Forrest
>>
>>
>> On Feb 14, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Paul Hart wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering the same thing.
>>>
>>> On Feb 14, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Tim Gray wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I was curious to know if OmniGraffle (or any other program) is 
>>>> capable of ingesting an html file (index.html), mapping out all the 
>>>> links from that page recursively, and drawing a flowchart 
>>>> illustrating the link structure of said website.
>>>>
>>>> The backstory is that I am inheriting the website management 
>>>> position for my graduate program.  The website has been up in 
>>>> various forms for the past 10 years and been very poorly managed by 
>>>> at least 4 others before me.  It would be wonderful to visualize 
>>>> the mess of links to weed out what is indeed used and unused.  I 
>>>> figured that there must exist something like this feature executed 
>>>> in a manner similar to OmniGraffle's excellent directory tree 
>>>> mapping.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
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