If you have a suggestion for the webmaster tool / sitemap generator, let me know by posting it here. I’ll try to add these to the sitemap generator when I do the next update.
So far we have:
Allow the modified field to be changed by right clicking.
Show total time to spider a site.
Allow option to compress file.
Changing the order of a sitemap then saving it does not show up in sitemap.xml
Fix memory issue – the larger the site the more memory required.
Russian Symbols in urls and titles cause problems (are converted).
strange characters in html sitemap
Level 4 pdf files
Split sitemap
Ability to disable cookies.
Ability to ignore case, case insensitive sitemap (see this)
Change wording of XML File under export to session file – too many people choose XML File rather than SITEMAP XML when creating a sitemap for yahoo or google.
Enhancements:
Generator won’t update the pages date when pages have been updated unless rerun sitemap from start.
For those of us doing large sites (mine is over 140,000 pages) either an Auto Save in the background while it is crawling, or Auto stop, save and restart every x minutes. I have to leave it run over several days, and it would really suck if I let it run for 10 hours without saving and then the power went out, losing that 10 hours of work.
It would also be nice if it did an auto garbage collect every so often as well.
It would also be nice if there was a warn on closing / leaving the page. I have twice almost closed it during a crawl.