Graphical Visualisation of a website structure

📄 Project Abstract

The aim of this project is to create a piece of software that is capable of clearly and accurately visualising the structure of a large website. A website's structure can be defined as the layout of the hyperlinks that connect all its pages together into a cohesive entity. These links can be both unidirectional and bi-directional, and link structures often loop back on themselves. Also, these links can sometimes be grouped according to purpose or subject matter by analysing the filenames and/or content of the pages they link. Once these links have been catalogued and categorised accordingly, they form an interconnecting network-like structure, similar to that of a computer network. My goal is to create an effective visualisation of this structure that is both useful in the information it provides, as well as being easy to view and navigate. 1.2 Objectives The objectives of the project are to: 1. Develop a technique for accurately and effectively graphically visualising the link structu...