Design an Impressive Site Map Online with Canva
Site map maker features
Just as a geographical map acts as your guide to a destination, your website’s site map is a navigational tool to help you and your audience find information quickly. Moreover, site maps also serve as a guide for search engine crawlers. Without site maps, search engines may focus on low priority pages and miss high priority ones.
More than 20 professional types of graphs to choose from
Professionally designed templates to fast-track your workflow
Data visualization made easy – no complicated software to learn
Publish, share or download your high-resolution site map
Embed your site map in presentations, reports and more with no fuss
Easy drag-and-drop tools, made with the non-designer in mind
How to create a site map
Launch Canva
Open Canva and search for "Site Map" to start your design project.
Choose a site map template
Browse our collection of ready-made templates. Filter your search results by style, theme, or color. Select your chosen site map template to start designing.
Apply your data
Fill in your site map template with relevant data. List down the different pages and files on your site, and use lines and symbols to illustrate the relationships between them. Add more blocks and cells as needed to build your website structure.
Customize your site map
Personalize every aspect of your site map with icons, illustrations, and other graphics. Move elements around, resize text boxes, or add hyperlinks. You can also change the color palette, font styles, and overall theme to design a site map that suits your needs.
Download and share
Download your site map as a high-quality PNG or JPG file. Or, if your design includes clickable content, make sure to save it in PDF format. You can also share your design directly from the editor by generating a link or typing in the email address.
Open Canva and search for "Site Map" to start your design project.
Browse our collection of ready-made templates. Filter your search results by style, theme, or color. Select your chosen site map template to start designing.
Fill in your site map template with relevant data. List down the different pages and files on your site, and use lines and symbols to illustrate the relationships between them. Add more blocks and cells as needed to build your website structure.
Personalize every aspect of your site map with icons, illustrations, and other graphics. Move elements around, resize text boxes, or add hyperlinks. You can also change the color palette, font styles, and overall theme to design a site map that suits your needs.
Download your site map as a high-quality PNG or JPG file. Or, if your design includes clickable content, make sure to save it in PDF format. You can also share your design directly from the editor by generating a link or typing in the email address.
Help users navigate your site with a brilliant site map
For a design as important as a site map, you would usually need the help of a professional designer and hours of work to create one. With Canva, however, you can reduce the stress and time needed to create a visual site map thanks to ready-made, professional templates and drag and drop design tools. Without a straightforward and uncomplicated design platform like Canva, you can move from an abstract idea to a concrete site map or synoptic table in just a few clicks.
Use professional templates as your starting point
Our team of amazing Canva designers have come up with a library of templates you can use as a springboard to create your own customized site map. The templates were designed to suit a wide number of industries as well as design styles. Once you have one that catches your eye and fills your needs, you can go straight to editing. Move, resize, recolor, add or delete elements as needed. Add text, change fonts types or sizes. By using Canva’s ready templates, we’ll do the heavy-lifting on your design so you can stay focused on the overall planning and management of your website.
Use icons, text or both to map your website
Designing in Canva gives you the means to designing with flexibility. You can choose to use icons to represent certain pages or keep it simple using plain text. Whichever you go with, all you’ll need is a few clicks and drag and drops. To search for icons, simply head over to the Elements tab and click on the icons folder. Clicking on an icon will add it to your design. From there, it’s a simple matter of dragging the icon to where you need it to go, resizing or recoloring it to suit your design.
You can format your text easily by using the text toolbar. Create emphasis by applying a bold, italic or underlined format or by changing the font style and size. You can also fix alignment and spacing in a few clicks.
Add hyperlinks to your site map
Since site maps are a visual representation of your website, it’s best to have clickable content. To add a hyperlink to any icon, illustration or text in your design, simply click on the element you wish to turn into your hyperlink, click on the link icon, enter the link of the website or content you wish to redirect your readers to and hit enter to create a hyperlink. However, you must download your design as a PDF so your readers will be able to click on the links and open it on their browser. Hyperlinks will also work by sharing your design via email or view link.
Site map templates
Assem A
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes! Download our iPhone and iPad apps from the App Store or our Android app from Google Play to design from the office, home or on the go! Otherwise, head to www.canva.com to create designs on the web without downloading or installing anything.
Sometimes, you'll need the help of teammates or colleagues to create your site map. To share your site map design, click on the Share button then choose either the Can edit or Can view option. The can edit option will give them access to edit your design in their personal Canva account. There is no limit as to how many people can edit your design.
