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S ites even a fraction of that size can become a dizzying maze for visitors.
They may never be able to find what they're looking for, may miss key features you want them to visit, and may not know what they should in order to take advantage of the site. Larger sites with content branching off in many directions are better served by graphical site maps that let readers see the entire site structure at a glance. The clickable graphic map of the Apple Computers Web site is a good example. For complex sites, these tools may prove even more useful than site maps. Site-specific search engines let visitors enter words or phrases, then return a list of the pages on the site that contain those terms.