So that is most of the HTML done, there will be some more to add once we have created a CSS page to go with it.  If you view the page as it is, you’ll see what browsers that don’t support CSS see.  However plainly, the page still makes sense and still functions.  This is also how a spider would read the page.

Creating a site map in this way is not to be confused with the new application recently unleashed by Google called Google Sitemaps.  This is a fairly recent addition to Google’s repertoire of tools and services and aims at providing site masters with the tools needed to actively help their site get indexed and provide optional information on things like the change frequency and relative importance of each page.  This is an excellent idea because it can increase the speed at which new sites or additions to existing sites are discovered in the vast plethora of data that makes up the Internet.  Basically, you create a site map file in one of the supported protocols and submit it to Google.  A spider is then dispatched to index the site.