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I’m just starting web-developing now (I do have experience with C#). And I’ve seen a recommendation to use Web.sitemap to have a list of pages of my website. Does this help? Will I be able to use this instead of having links on my web pages somehow? And what about being accessible to Google so my website will be found by searchers – will this help?
The Web.sitemap is not primarily a control to be used for your main navigation; it’s meant as a navigational overview for the user and is typically only needed in large sites. It doesn’t affect your SEO in any way – Google is more interested in the quality of your content.
A site map (NOT a Web.sitemap) is a list of pages on your site, and used in conjunction with a robots.txt file, CAN help your SEO. You can use the following tool to generate a site map automatically (although you’ll nearly always have to hand tweak it as well):
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
The normal way to build navigation for a small/medium site is to create a set of links as an unordered set (ul/li) and style them with CSS.