[thelist] Help with (Mac) Mapping a Member Area

[Simon at Sentient Technologies]

Hello all,

One of our clients has a very large members-only area that they'd 
like redesigned. It's grown over about a 5-year period and the 
content has been added by several different people with 
widely-varying skills and knowledge of good site design. What they'd 
like is a new design and navigation system that makes the members 
area seem more like it's all one area instead of a hundred different 
sections all linked together.

Pretty standard task, but in this case there really is a lot of 
content, there are a lot of pages that are only linked to maybe one 
other page (we've already found some orphans linked to nothing at 
all), and there is no central navigation system at all. Moreover, all 
of the current content needs to be reused, nothing is to be lost.

We can handle doing all of the work required but we're looking for a 
software tool for the Macintosh operating system that could make some 
of the early work a lot easier. What we need is some good Mac site 
mapping software that can look at the existing members area and 
create a site map showing us everything that's there now and how each 
file is linked to other files.

We have a complete copy of the 6 gigabyte members area on a Firewire 
drive so we don't have to worry about the mapping software being able 
to get through the password access. Does anyone out there have some 
Macintosh site mapping software that they'd recommend for something 
like this?

Thanks for any help you can offer,

Simon
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