While working with Inigo Media, I've observed that a common step in the construction of a business website is the creation of a sitemap. This is usually created collaboratively by the client and the designers, and serves to organize the content that will ultimately exist on the site. Once the sitemap has been more or less finalized, the next step is usually to translate it into a menu structure so that navigation elements can be configured and themed.

Creating this menu structure by hand can be a very boring process for large sites. To help with this process, I've created a new Drupal module called Menu Import. With this module, you can quickly "scaffold" the site up by uploading a CSV file that describes the desired menu structure. This can be a real life-saver if your primary navigation menu consists of 75 nodes!

Right now, the module is very basic: you upload the file and the menu structure is created. It assumes that the nodes already exist (which is what the Node Import module is for) and it gets the paths for the menu items from the nodes. I have a few ideas for new features, but I'm going to wait until we use it a bit more to see how it evolves. I'm curious what features other users would want to see.