Why a site map
Posh, I don't think anyone is saying that you HAVE to have a site map for every site. But, there are ocassions when a site, by design, needs to use dynamic navigation.
Case in point: Site has 50 pages - that's not a terrible lot of pages, but 50 links running down the side of each page is awkward to use. I know you can list just the main links and then drill down as you go to each main page topic, but I am of the belief that a site visitor should be able to access ANY page from ANY page. In other words, once they land on your home page (or any other page of your site) they should be no more than 1 click away from their intended destination. With a site of 20, 30, 50 pages or more it requires some drop-down menus, usually written in JavaScript.
Now, this is great navigation for most site visitors (as long as they have JavaScript enabled), but it's a road block for many search engine robots.
So, to help those robots and those visitors with JavaScript disabled, we provide a Site Map. Is that so terrible?
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