Visual InterDev
You can use a site diagram to easily design and build the structure of a Web application. In addition, site diagrams help you to define and modify the navigation links between pages. For more information navigation links, see Designing Site Navigation.
Site diagrams can be used to create new Web applications or to redesign the structure of existing Web applications. A Web application can have multiple site diagrams. For example, you can create different site diagrams to define the navigation structure between separate areas of your Web application.
To create a site diagram
The Add Item dialog box appears.
A new site diagram appears.
Note When you create the first site diagram for a Web application, Site Designer automatically adds a home page for the site to the diagram. If no home page exists, Site Designer creates one and adds it to the project when you save the site diagram.
Site Designer determines existing home pages based on information on the Web server. In general, Site Designer considers files such as default.htm
, default.asp
, or index.htm
to be home pages. Microsoft® Internet Information Server specifies default.asp
for a home page and Microsoft® Personal Web Server specifies default.htm
for a home page.
You can add pages to a site diagram from the current project or from other applications. You can also use Site Designer to add new pages to the site diagram and the Web project. For more information, see Adding Pages to a Site Diagram.