HIERARCHICAL OR MESH website.

[ezmc]

I have to do something in school relating to a site map.

can someone please explain the two, and how they are different?

[the tree]

If you can create a site map by sematicaly using nested lists then it is likely to be hierarchical. If you can create a site map by sematicaly using a table (such as authors/topics) then it is likely to be a mesh.
This does of course mean that a site can be both, or niether.
If a site consists of just seperate sections without any sub sections then the site is unstructured. (not nessersarly that bad).

[ray326]

The pages in a "hierarchical" site are linked together in a way that forms a tree structure, like a family tree. A page can have several children but only one parent. In a "mesh" design the links on each page can point to any other page on the site, more like the traditional "web" concept.