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What is a decision tree? [Practical examples & use cases 2025]
When you’re faced with any decision, particularly a complex one, don’t you wish you had some sort of clear, repeatable process to help you make the best choice? That’s where… Continue readingAugust 8, 2025 • 13 min read
Meet Slickplan’s new, smarter content editor
From scattered systems to structured content at scale. If your team’s managing content across websites, marketing campaigns or institutional platforms, you know how fast things can fall apart. Projects sprawl.… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated August 7, 2025 • 7 min read
Meet your site planning ✈️ co-pilot: Slickplan’s AI assistant is here ✨
Introducing our AI-powered sitemap assistant—you’re new co-pilot for building, refining and perfecting your sitemaps. Consider AI your colleague in designing efficient, user-friendly and SEO-optimized website structures and intuitive navigation systems—shaving… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonOctober 14, 2024 • 3 min read
InVision shutting down! The one replacement design teams should focus on
In case you haven’t heard: InVision is shutting down on December 31, 2024 😱 For many web and UX/UI designers, that’ll mark the end of an era. InVision has been… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated August 29, 2024 • 4 min read
Slickplan acquires The UX Blog: The new home for UX news 🖥️🚀
Big news! We’re pumped to announce that Slickplan has acquired The UX Blog, a leading resource for UX design insights and trends. This move is all about providing you with… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated July 1, 2024 • 2 min read
User roles reimagined: Discover what’s new in Slickplan 🎉💪
Hey there, web design enthusiasts! Have you ever been in a project with unclear boundaries, where every team member had unrestricted access? If so, you’ll understand when I say it… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonOctober 9, 2023 • 1 min read
New drag & drop page cloning 🤩
About a year ago, we released a major upgrade to great fanfare. That included functionality overhauls to our most popular tool, the Sitemap Builder. Since then we’ve been constantly adding… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonApril 20, 2023 • 1 min read
Introducing Design Mockups 3.0: What you need to know now 👇
There’s a pretty good chance you’ve noticed some of the very exciting changes we’ve made to Slickplan lately. Maybe you’ve even used a few of our new (and free) SEO… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonSeptember 28, 2022 • 2 min read
Slickplan launches free SEO toolkit 🚀
There’s more to SEO than just getting some keywords on the page. You know that. We know that – and now we can help you do something about it. To… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated July 5, 2022 • 4 min read
Plan better with new sitemap, content & diagram templates
Website planning simplified. It’s kind of our thing and we’re happy to announce a new batch of templates that make creating a killer website even easier. What’s new? Templates! They’re… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated November 18, 2021 • 2 min read
New & improved page cells 💁♂️
Last month Slickplan released a major upgrade… including an improved user experience, new interface and functionality updates to our most popular tool, the Sitemap Builder. The response has been awesome… Continue readingUpdated November 19, 2021 • 2 min read
It’s alive! Slickplan 2.0 is here 🚀
Today we are thrilled to announce the release of Slickplan 2.0! It’s been 10 years since we first created Slickplan and so much has changed since then. What started as… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated May 2, 2024 • 3 min read
What to know about Slickplan 2.0 🧭
Slickplan 2.0 is coming very soon. The improvements are going to be substantial and we want to make sure you’re experiencing the smoothest transition possible to the new platform. Resources… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated July 30, 2022 • 2 min read
Slickplan 2.0 NEW feature roundup ✨
Slickplan 2.0 is just around the corner! Our new and improved Sitemap Builder, coupled with a brand new, completely redesigned Diagram Maker and Content Planner, is ready to provide you… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated August 4, 2022 • 5 min read
Slickplan 2.0 is almost here! ⏰
Next month we’ll be rolling out a brand new Slickplan. This update includes all of the tools and functionality you’ve come to rely on, coupled with new easy to use… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated August 4, 2022 • 4 min read
Preparing for Success with the General Data Protection Regulation
In an era of far-reaching user data breaches from banking to social networks, the European Union (EU) is set to initiate its April 2016-approved legislation known as the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. This is a bold move in the right direction for consumers whose information is spread far and wide on the internet, whether it’s logging into apps on smartphones, or providing personal data to companies for products and services. Continue readingUpdated November 19, 2021 • 9 min read
Check Out Some of Our Latest New Features
At Slickplan, we focus on making website creation a breeze, and some of our latest features make that goal even more possible. From Google Analytics integration to multilingual support these new features will take you from concept to website in no time. Gone are the days of multiple tabs – at least when it comes optimizing established website projects. Continue readingBy Jenn MarieUpdated November 19, 2021 • 5 min readLaunching a New Website Planning Suite — Slickplan.com Is Taking Web Architecture To A Whole New Level
Slickplan, a seamless sitemap builder since 2009, launches three new website planning tools. This launch takes Slickplan into new territory in terms of everything professionals need to plan a website. From sitemap to finished product, Slickplan offers a powerful new solution for a critical step in producing successful websites — pre-CMS planning. Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated November 19, 2021 • 1 min read
Website Planning Just Got Better – Announcing Slickplan’s Pre-CMS Suite Launch
Hey everyone, wait until you see what we’ve been up to. Slickplan just launched three critical website planning tools to coincide with our popular sitemap web app. If you already thought our site mapping platform was amazing, you will find these new tools even more important in the planning of successful, well thought out websites. Let us introduce you to new... Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated November 19, 2021 • 3 min read
Add Images with Design Mockups
Do you ever wish you could show clients or your team ideas for the pages inside your sitemap? If so, there’s an exciting new update to Slickplan. Whether it’s a… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated October 10, 2023 • 1 min read
New Features: Real-Time Chat, Lock/Unlock & Approval, Batch Editing, and more…
The new features are pouring in, making Slickplan better than ever. Whether to perform a real-time chat or manage sitemap approvals, this tool just keeps on giving. Let’s take a… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated November 19, 2021 • 3 min read
New Features: Export goodies and more
We’re movin’ right along here at slickplan. This month has been filled with small fixes and new features. The latest updates are: Visual Editor for Cells Notes: Cell notes just… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated November 19, 2021 • 1 min read
New Features: Batch editing and Groups
We are on a roll! Since our last update we have been tirelessly working on getting the much requested “multiple selection” feature for our content planning and site mapping tools.… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated November 19, 2021 • 2 min read
New Feature Roundup
Okay, we admit It’s been a while since our last post. We’ve been quietly working on some big updates for our site mapping software that you and our other users… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated November 19, 2021 • 2 min read
New Features: Page Types and Sections
Slickplan is excited to bring you a new feature set for sitemap design. We have listened carefully to you, our valued customers, and implemented the items you want and need… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated November 19, 2021 • 1 min readNew Feature: Invoice History
After we released of the new Slickplan it became pretty apparent that you wanted to be able to have one nice tidy spot to view all of your transactions and… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated November 19, 2021 • 1 min readNew Feature: Multiple Admins
Slick Plan Just Got A Little Sicker With this new version of Slickplan it was extremely important to include collaborative options with our sitemap tools. Since the process of creating… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated November 19, 2021 • 2 min read
Slickplan + New Basecamp
Basecamp is an integral tool to many web design agencies, including our own. We’ve known for some time that using Slickplan in conjunction with Basecamp makes the design process simpler… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated November 19, 2021 • 1 min read
And the Winner is… US!
Atomic Interactive, the digital marketing agency headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, created the design, development and marketing strategy for Slickplan.com. Slickplan was created to fill a hole in the web design… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated November 19, 2021 • 2 min read
Slickplan Superlatives
We have an announcement for our users who’ve given us feedback in the last two years: we listened. And we’ve been working hard to implement your ideas into our sitemap… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated July 28, 2021 • 1 min read
We Have Liftoff
People have a way of letting you know if you’ve got something good going. With Slickplan’s registered user population booming and rave reviews pouring in, we knew it was time… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated July 29, 2018 • 1 min readSlickplan & Perfect PDFs
Export PDFs…Of ANY Size One of the suggestions (OK, complaints) we heard time and time again about Slickplan was to improve the PDF export function. It was a valid gripe,… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated July 28, 2021 • 1 min readSlickplan’s Untapped Potential
While we loved the original Slickplan, we suspected early on that Slickplan was brimming with untapped potential. The comments and suggestions we received from you confirmed this suspicion. Our ideas… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated July 28, 2021 • 2 min readSlickplan Pro… You Asked For It
We decided to create Slickplan because every website we made needed a sitemap and every piece of software we used to create sitemaps was, well, lousy. Since launching Slickplan almost… Continue readingBy Ian LawsonUpdated July 28, 2021 • 1 min read