Can I use UML for modelling website navigation? If so someone give me some books/links for referrence (UML for websites kind of…!!!). If not so what are the tools for this?
And basically I am a programmer and when I designed my previous website I just sketched down different page design ideas on paper and opted the one that I felt suitable. Then I did implement that design using html/css from scratch.
Is this the approach generally taken by all or have tools for drawing the to be implemented website designs (Wireframe kind of..)? Is the CMS meant for this? Please guide me on this.
Thanks
Best Answer
From time to time, I'll (ab)use a state diagram to lay out a site. Each "state" represents a page (or group of pages), each "transition" a flow from one page (group) to another.
I don't try to capture all navigation: that becomes impractically noisy very quickly. However it can be useful for capturing primary flows, e.g:
etc.
It's not a 'proper' state diagram but can be useful. You might also want to look at Garrett Information Architecture. It's a bespoke notation for the same problem but has a richer set of symbols.
hth.