Creately Blog

Why Sitemaps and Website Navigation Plans Matter

Working with designers, developers, clients and other stakeholders in designing a website can be a challenge, especially when working with external vendors. Its challenging enough to grok your client’s exact requirements and you want to make sure these requirements are clearly understood by the entire project team. As part of a web design project, its essential to develop a sitemap or website navigation plan in order to clearly communicate the intent and scope of your website to stakeholders and the project team.

Web site navigation plans should include all the web pages within your site and preferably be easy to navigate, update and share. But an ideal navigation plan, should allow you to easily link your sitemap to your webpage mockups - so clients can visualize and explore the entire website design even before a single line of HTML code is written.

Interactive Sitemaps with Creately

This 2-min video demonstrates how to create interactive Sitemaps and Website Navigation Plans with Creately that user’s can click-thru to review the underlying webpage mockups. With ready made easy-start templates and a fully interactive interface, Creately makes it easy to create and collaborate on sitemaps, mockups and wireframes for all your design projects.

Like what you see? Sign up for Creately - and start creating website plans and online mockups for free.

@charanjit

Can IT Troubleshooting get any Easier?

An application failing to respond is no big deal and troubleshooting is no rocket science!! But we end up cursing the application each time it fails to respond.

Not everyone is a techie; and every time we have issues we run to IT support or our friends for help. Now thanks to Thomas Boito (First Steps in Troubleshooting),  you needn’t hassle your tech-savvy friends anymore.

This flowchart by Thomas created with Creately.com illustrates the first steps in troubleshooting your PC desktop problems and is very simple yet effective. I  hope you’ll find this flowchart as useful as I did - I’ve got it up on the wall.

Drawing flowcharts on Creately is stunningly easy and convenient with Creately’s 1-click create button. You too can try Creately for a great flowcharting experience! (Don’t worry you don’t have to pay a thing - and when you’re ready to commit, we’ll let you Pay the Price You Want)

Have you got a useful Creately diagram you’d like featured here - send us the public link to your diagram (Help Page - How to 1-Click-Publish your Diagrams on Creately)

Creately image by Thomas Boito

Picture by Cliche / CC BY-SA 2.0

@indu

Fast and Easy Organizational Chart

Creately Video Tutorial #3 - Fast & Easy Organizational Chart

Today, we show you how to create a fast and easy organizational chart for your team and workplace. An online organizational chart is a breeze to create with Creately. In 4 mins you’ll learn all the tips & tricks you’ll need for a beautiful organizational chart that you can publish on the Internet or embed on your Intranet site with just 1-click.

Creately Video Tutorial #3 - Fast & Easy Organizational Chart

@charanjit

Multiple Connectors between Entities & Shapes

Many of you are using Creately to put together some wonderful UML, entity relationships and other diagrams that require multiple connectors be connected between the shapes. That’s something you can do real easy with Creately’s magic Gluepoints.

Here’s a 1-min video that shows how to use gluepoints in Creately to create multiple connection points betwen shapes that stick to where they should be and are smart enough to route themselves when you move your objects around.

Hope this was useful. Drop us a line with more video tutorial suggestions, or if you have any questions.

@charanjit

2 ways to add Graphics to your Creately diagrams

We had some users asking how they could add more images and graphics to their Creately diagrams, so I put together a quick diagram with Creately to show off how you can add more graphics to Creately diagrams.