A great way for website owners to categorize their articles or posts or any information related to specific areas or states is to have a clickable map on your web site instead of a dull list of links on your page.
With the new JQuery plugin javascript techniques being developed across the net, it is now exciting to use image maps again. For instance the great jquery plugin MapHilight by David Lynch actually hilights areas of coordinates that are plotted in a way that can be easily edited.
Admittedly to create a great hover over effect requires attention to detail as far as plotting coordinates goes but it’s worth the effort as you can see in my demo of a clickable map of the Germany. Failing to make really tight coordinates can porduce undesired results…..that’s why I have created perfect map coordinates for counties and states for my latest clickable maps. Check out my clickable map of France and its states to see this effect.
However before we even start to plot coordinates we must make a decent clickable map image and this is a task untoo itself. Tracing borders and states is a time consuming business for any webmaster. To save you time, I have already created layered Photoshop Image Files of popular country maps complete with all state borders traced with guidance from Wikipedia.
Now there’s no need to create a perfect clickable map from scratch, no need to pay through your nose to a webmaster to do this for you. The fact that it took me 2 weeks just to plot coordinates for my UK and Ireland Clickable Map, 130 plus counties in all, tells you that is a lot of precious time that you would rather spend working on something else. See the amazing result of my British Isles and Eire Map with the splendid JQuery hover over effect
If ever you need a clickable map of USA, EUROPE, GERMANY, FRANCE and ASIA be sure to come to my website and download a clickable map with editable photoshop image and html code and save yourself a mountain of precious time. One last note: Joomla users can experience difficulty adding image maps to their pages, I have a solution at my website and instructions with every clickable map package that I present at my website.
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