Understanding Sitemap
In this video we learn about
sitemapSitemap is used to create a structured representation of the files and pages that make up a website. This structure is created over a layout which we will talk about in a bit.
Why sitemap?
Just like a college library needs to organise their shelves, books in an order based on cateogry or genre. Similarly, in a package, we want to organise the documents in different sections, subsections and TOCs.
Sitemap serves as a blueprint or roadmap, providing information about the organization and hierarchy of content on the website.How to configure sitemap for your site
We create the sitemap in the
FASTN.ftd. So, we write:
-- fastn.sitemap: # Section: <url> ## SubSection: <url> - TOC-1: <url> - TOC-2: <url> - SubTOC-2-1: <url> - SubTOC-2-2: <url> ...
Lang:
ftd
and after a line space
- for
sectionswe use# - for
subsectionswe use##, and - for
TOCsandsub-TOCswe use-
In all the three cases, whatever written before colon is displayed as the title on webpage and whatever is written after colon, becomes the URL to access it.
First section
We put our first section like, hash for section, home as section name and URL:
# Home: /
Lang:
ftd
Section Home is displayed on the webpage, which displays the content of index.ftd document. The URL / corresponds to index.ftd document.
index.ftd file we need to write something after /. For example, there is a file foo.ftd, then to access the foo document, we need to write, /foo/.Second section
Let’s add another section.
# Season: /season/summer/
Lang:
ftd
The URL is the path of the document. Inside folder season, there is a document called
summer.ftd.Subsections
Let’s give some subsections to this section
season.## Autumn: /season/autumn/ ## Spring: /season/spring/ ## Summer: /season/summer/ ## Winter: /season/winter/
Lang:
ftd
TOCs
Similarly, we can add TOCs.
TOCs start with single dash or hyphen -, followed by TOC title before colon and after the colon, as usual, the URL.
- Sunrise: /season/day-event/sunrise/ - Sunset: /season/day-event/sunset/
Lang:
ftd
and so on, you can give any number of TOCs and even sub-TOCs to the sections or subsections.
# Home: / # Season: /season/summer/ ## Autumn Season: /season/autumn/ - Sunrise: /season/day-event/sunrise/ - Sunset: /season/day-event/sunset/ ## Spring Season: /season/spring/ - Sunrise: /season/day-event/sunrise/ - Today's News: /season/day-event/news/rained/ - Sunset: /season/day-event/sunset/ ## Summer Season: /season/summer/ - Sunrise: /season/day-event/sunrise/ - Sunset: /season/day-event/sunset/ ## Winter Season: /season/winter/ - Sunrise: /season/day-event/sunrise/ - Sunset: /season/day-event/sunset/
Lang:
ftd
The URLs can be cleaned and customized by using the
document feature of sitemap.# Home: / # Season: /current-season/ document: /season/summer.ftd ## Autumn: /autumn/ document: /season/autumn.ftd - Sunrise: /sunrise-in-autumn/ document: /season/day-event/sunrise.ftd - Sunset: /sunset-in-autumn/ document: /season/day-event/sunset.ftd ## Spring: /spring/ document: /seasons/spring.ftd - Sunrise: /sunrise-in-spring/ document: /season/day-event/sunrise.ftd - Today's News: /news-of-the-day/ document: /season/day-event/news/rained.ftd - Sunset: /sunset-in-spring/ document: /season/day-event/sunset.ftd ## Summer: /summer/ document: /season/summer.ftd - Sunrise: /sunrise-in-summer/ document: /season/day-event/sunrise.ftd - Sunset: /sunset-in-summer/ document: /season/day-event/sunset.ftd ## Winter: /winter/ document: /season/winter.ftd - Sunrise: /sunrise-in-winter/ document: /season/day-event/sunrise.ftd - Sunset: /sunset-in-winter/ document: /season/day-event/sunset.ftd
Lang:
ftd
To know all about this feature you can checkout the video about
How to create clean URLs.
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