When looking for a pottery workshop in Namur or a flea market nearby, the difficulty is not the lack of information, but its scattering. Infolocale brings together events, activities, and announcements from local organizations on a single platform. The sitemap, often overlooked, allows for a shorter path to the right section without going through successive filters or a sometimes capricious search bar.
Infolocale Sitemap: What This Page Is Useful For in Practice
A website sitemap lists all the pages accessible on a domain, organized by category. On a platform like Infolocale, which handles thousands of announcements from associations, local authorities, and professionals, this page becomes a useful navigation shortcut.
Specifically, it is used in two situations. The first: you know what you are looking for (a specific section, a type of organization), but the structure of the main menu does not display it directly. The second: you are discovering the platform and want to understand how the content is structured before diving into the announcements. The Infolocale sitemap presents this architecture at a glance, without intermediate navigation.
Feedback varies on this point, but several regular users of local announcement platforms find that a well-constructed sitemap saves time compared to a keyword search, especially when you do not know the exact vocabulary used by the platform (event, activity, publication).
Three Tools, Three Navigation Paths on Infolocale
The Infolocale platform revolves around three main tools with distinct paths: Events, Activities, and Publications. Each corresponds to a type of content and a different input logic from the organizer’s side, which is directly reflected in how the pages are organized from the visitor’s perspective.
The Events Tool
This is the historical core of Infolocale. Here you will find concerts, flea markets, markets, shows, and occasional events. Navigation is done by date, theme, or geographical location. Each event has its own page with location, times, and contact information for the organization.
The Activities Tool
This covers regular offerings: weekly classes, recurring workshops, office hours. The difference with an occasional event is structural, not cosmetic. The input path and required fields are not the same, and the page generated for the public adopts a format suited to recurrence.
The Publications Tool
Organizations can publish editorial content (press releases, reports, calls for volunteers). These publications are distributed on the pages of partner media sites, giving them visibility beyond the Infolocale platform alone.
Understanding this distinction between the three tools allows for more efficient navigation. If you are looking for a one-time ceramics workshop, it’s in Events. A ceramics class every Tuesday evening, that’s in Activities. An article about the life of the workshop, that’s in Publications.
Connecting via Infoconnect: What Changes for Navigating as an Organizer
Since March 10, 2026, Infolocale has switched its login system to Infoconnect. All users must create a new personal Infoconnect account to access the back office. The condition to retrieve their organizations and access rights: use the same email address as previously registered.
This change has a direct impact on internal navigation. The login process is different, and some users encounter blocks related to their browser. The Infolocale knowledge base recommends Google Chrome for optimal compatibility. Mozilla Firefox works, but issues have been reported with specific functionalities like photo credit management.
If nothing happens when publishing an announcement or if the login page remains blank, the reflex to have is to check three points:
- The browser used is recent and up to date (Chrome preferred)
- The email address entered exactly matches that of the original Infolocale account
- Cookies and JavaScript are enabled, as the Infoconnect login form depends on them
Using the Sitemap to Find a Local Organization or Event
The Infolocale search bar works well when typing a specific name. It shows its limits when exploring an area without knowing what’s happening there. The sitemap compensates for this weakness by offering a structured view by content type and geographical area.
A common use case: you move to a new municipality and want to identify active associations, upcoming events, and available services. Rather than testing random keywords, browsing the sitemap allows you to identify the available categories (associations, local authorities, professionals, schools, and training) and click directly to the relevant section.
Another practical situation: an organizer wants to check that their announcement is well indexed and accessible from the public structure of the site. The sitemap then serves as a quick control tool.
Browser, Device, and Compatibility: Technical Constraints to Know
Navigation on Infolocale also depends on the technical environment. Here are some concrete points to keep in mind:
- On mobile, some input pages (event creation, organization profile modification) display poorly with older browsers or overly aggressive ad blockers
- The recommended browser remains the latest version of Google Chrome, both for consultation and account management
- The sitemap pages display correctly on all modern browsers since they are static link lists without heavy dynamic components
For an organization managing its announcements from a shared workstation (media library, town hall), checking the browser version before each session avoids the most common blocks.
The sitemap remains one of the lightest and most stable pages of a platform like Infolocale. When the rest of the site has display or loading issues, it is often through there that one finds a functional path to the desired content.