About the table of contents and site maps

Table of contents

You can create an automatically generated table of contents based on the navigation structure of your web site or one based on the categories that you assign to your pages.

The table of contents based on the navigational structure can also include pages with hyperlinks that are not included in the navigation structure. A site visitor browsing your web site can click any entry in the table of contents to jump to that page or file.

You can create the table of contents on a page that contains other content, or on a page by itself. If you want to create a table of contents for a large web site, you should probably create a special page containing only the table of contents.

You can format your table of contents — for example, change the heading font size — and you can also set it so that Microsoft FrontPage automatically recalculates the table of contents whenever any page in your web site is edited.

Site maps

Many web sites use site maps to make it easier for site visitors to find the pages they need.

For a personal or small web site, a site map can be as simple as a list of hyperlinks to all the web site's pages. You can create this kind of site map by using the Table of Contents web component.

For a corporate presence or large web site, a site map typically contains lists of hyperlinks to pages in different subwebs, categories, or other logical groups, organized under logical headings. For example, if you sell appliances, your site map might have columns of hyperlinks for Small Appliances, Large Appliances, and Customer Service. You can create this kind of site map by using categories.

  The categories to which you've assigned specific pages

  The pages that have been assigned to the category under which they are listed