1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 A site map is a great addition to your Web site. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Site maps are used on all kinds of Web sites, and what they are is a whole bunch 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 of links for your Web site, all on one page; links to every page of your Web site, ideally. 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,000 This is a great thing for search engines, they can come to this page, they can 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,000 spider through all of the content on your Web site very quickly and easily, and 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,000 there are some people that just prefer surfing the Web using a site map, and the 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 reason is they don't have to figure out your navigation. 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,000 They can simply go through, and click on everything that's in the site map, and 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000 visit those pages on your Web site. 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:38,000 So there's nothing wrong with including a site map, and Xmap here is a very 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 quick and easy way to add this in Joomla. 12 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Xmap has been around for years, and it has a very nice looking site map that you 13 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 can easily install on your Web site. 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:51,000 So to do this, we are going to scroll on down to the bottom of the page here, and 15 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 we have three choices. Two are for versions of Joomla 16 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:58,000 that are no longer supported. The last one here is for Xmap, and version 2.5 or 3. 17 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000 So I am going to go ahead and click that, and I am going to save this on down to 18 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,000 my computer here, and then I am going to hop here to the back-end of the Web site, 19 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,000 and I am going to install this extension, and I can do that through 20 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Extensions > Extension Manager, or I can click on Install Extensions over here on 21 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:16,000 the left side of the screen. 22 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Either way, it takes you to the same place, and I am going to go ahead and browse 23 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000 for my Xmap extension, and I am going to say Upload & Install. 24 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 And I get a message that this was installed successfully. 25 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Xmap is a component, so I'm going to look for its configuration screens on the 26 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Components menu, going down here to Xmap, and here it shows me that I have 27 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,000 currently no Sitemaps. 28 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Well, I can fix that by clicking the New button here. 29 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:46,000 I'll give this a title, like Site Map, and I am going to set this to Published. 30 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Then here under Menus, I can specify which menus of information I'd like to 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,000 display on the Web site. 32 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,000 I'd like to display the English menu, the Footer menu, and the Italian menu. 33 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,000 I don't really want to display Main Menu. Remember, that has one link on it; it 34 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:05,000 goes to the Home page with the language of All. And I am going to reorder these, 35 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,000 so that the Footer menu comes after the Italian menu. 36 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 I have some other options here. 37 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 I can choose to show some Intro text; that would be some text that would appear 38 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,000 at the top of the page. 39 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,000 You can enter that here on the Sitemap Details page down here in this box. 40 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:24,000 I can show the Menu title associated with each one of my menus, so it would 41 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,000 say something like English menu, followed by the menu, and Italian menu, followed by the menu. 42 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 I actually don't want to show my Menu title, 43 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 so I am going to say No for that. 44 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:37,000 I can specify any kind of CSS class names I might want associated with this 45 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,000 particular page, and the number of columns that the site map might display in. 46 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Sometimes you have a really, really long site map, and rather than scrolling down 47 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,000 forever, it just works better to display it in columns on the page. 48 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,000 I have an image right now that will indicate any external links on the Web site. 49 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:59,000 It's this image_blue.gif, and of course, I could change that if I wanted to, and 50 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,000 that's really all I need to do here. 51 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,000 So I'm just going to go ahead and say Save & Close. 52 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,000 And here is my Site Map right here for the Web site. 53 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Now, the next thing I want to do is configure this area called Extensions, and 54 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,000 this area called Extensions shows me a bunch of plug-ins associated with Xmap, 55 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:21,000 the Sitemap. And if I happen to have some of these extensions installed, then 56 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:26,000 when I enable these plug-ins, what will happen is that Xmap will spider the 57 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:31,000 content of, for example, SobiPro, or VirtueMart, or Mosets Tree, or some of 58 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,000 these other things. 59 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,000 I have the Content Plugin, so I am going to go ahead and turn that on. 60 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 I am also going to turn on the WebLinks Plugin, because I have used that as well. 61 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,000 I don't have Kunena, Mosets Tree, SobiPro, or VirtueMart installed, but those are 62 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,000 all possibilities; if I ever do install those, 63 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 I can integrate the Xmap Site map with those third party extensions. 64 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Okay, so now that this is all set to go, I now need to show the site map on the 65 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 front-end of the Web site. Since Xmap is a component, I show it on the front-end 66 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000 with the Web site through a menu item. 67 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:08,000 So I am going to go to my Menus, and I am going to put this on the Footer menu, 68 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,000 and I'm going to add a New menu item by clicking on the big green button, and I 69 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 am going to choose a Menu Item Type. 70 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Now that I have installed Xmap, this automatically shows up here as a new menu item type. 71 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Click on that, and it gives me an HTML Site map. 72 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 That's exactly what I want, 73 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 so I will pick that. 74 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Then it's going to ask me to pick which Site map; hit the Change button here, 75 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:33,000 and I will pick my Site Map from the list, and I will give this a Menu Title of Site Map. 76 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,000 I can set the Language over here if I want, and I could set this to 77 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,000 specifically English, or Italian. 78 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,000 I am going to leave it set to All, because I have both the English and Italian 79 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,000 menu selected to show on the site map, and I could alter my Access level if I 80 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,000 wished up here, but I really want this site map available to everyone, so I am 81 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 going to leave that set to Public. 82 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Go ahead and say Save & Close, and you see that we have the Site Map item 83 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,000 added to our Footer menu. 84 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,000 When I go to the front-end of the Web site, and I hit refresh, scroll on down 85 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:07,000 the page here, you will see that I have Site Map link that now appears here in the footer. 86 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,000 When I click on this, this is going to show me, now, all of the content that 87 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,000 I have on my Web site. 88 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Notice that it's spelling out all of my blog posts, in addition to my menu items. 89 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,000 So this is really great. 90 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Also notice I am only seeing my English menu, and my Footer menu. That's all. 91 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,000 That's because I'm on the English part of the Web site. 92 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,000 If I switch over to the Italian side of the Web site, and scroll to the bottom of 93 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,000 the page, and click on my Site Map, you'll see that I only have the Italian part 94 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,000 of the Site Map available to me. 95 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Just those two links to the Italian pages, as well as the footer. 96 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 So, why is the footer showing up in both places? 97 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Well, the footer's menu modules, as well as the footer links, all are set to a 98 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:54,000 Language of All, and what that means is it will show up on all of the languages. 99 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:59,000 So it's going to show up in Italian, and it will show up on the English side. 100 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:04,000 However, my Italian menu, and my English menu; the modules for those are 101 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,000 specifically mapped to certain languages, and that's why I only see links for 102 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,000 those languages here. 103 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 So Xmap is a great third-party extension. 104 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:18,000 It's multilanguage compatible, and I can go ahead and add a great site map to my Web site. 105 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,000 I can see all of the content on one page, making search engines, and other 106 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Web site visitors very happy.