WriteMaps

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

New Feature: Page Sorting!

Ever since WriteMaps launched, I've received several emails per week requesting the ability to sort pages. Many a glowing review has been tainted with this caveat, but despite my best efforts, it just wasn't going to come easy. Well Finally, tonight (or this morning I should say...) I'm happy to announce that you can now sort your pages to your heart's content. Simply click on a page in your sitemap and drag it around. As you drag your page over the rest of the map, highlighted 'drop zones' will appear as guides to let you know where it is safe to drop.

Page sorting example

You can sort pages that have child pages as well. And like the other editing features in WriteMaps, sorting is tracked in your undo menu so you can always revert back to where you were. I'm very excited to finally have this feature up and running so please give it a spin and let me know what you think! And as usual, if you run into any problems or obscure bugs, please use the feedback form so we can get in touch with you and resolve the issue quickly.

Thanks and enjoy!

Posted by Scott on 04/08 at 01:42 AM

Comments

Excellent news Scott! This feature transforms the app into something very useful indeed :-D

How about importing existing xml sitemaps next :-D

Posted by mercutio  on  04/08  at  03:06 PM

Scott, that is awesome. This is definitely a great feature addition. Something about the UI made me feel that drag/drop should able in the page sorting; glad to see you are keeping WriteMaps moving in a great direction.

Posted by Martin Ringlein  on  04/08  at  03:28 PM

@Mercutio and @Martin: Thanks! Glad you like the new addition.

@Mercutio: Importing XML sitemaps is a nice idea but the standard schema for them isn’t really designed to represent page hierarchies. All pages end up as top-level siblings of one another, which doesn’t seem very useful in a WriteMaps file. That’s why I haven’t added this feature, but if you have any ideas on this please email me!

Thanks again!

Posted by Scott  on  04/08  at  04:20 PM

Hells to the yeah mang. Nice…

Posted by Jonathan Terranova  on  04/08  at  07:33 PM

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