Clickable Maps Using The Great New JQery Plugins
A great way for website owners to categorize their articles, posts or any information related to specific areas or states is to have a clickable map on their web site instead of a dull list of links on the 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.
Creating a perfect hover over effect for any image map is an ordeal and plotting coordinates to make this effect is even more time consuming but very worthwhile as you can see in this demo clickable map of the UK and Ireland. If you dont pay attention to detail the effect is lost and it wont look good. Perfectly plotted coordinates for county and state maps make a big difference.
However, if you want to have your own design before we even start to plot coordinates you’ll want to 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. I found already made layered Photoshop Image Files of popular country maps complete with all state borders traced with guidance from Wikipedia.
There you have we have it ready made clickable maps for your website or blog, usually at 600 pixels width perfect for most web pages. The whole process of making a clickable map like this from scratch is very time consuming and can be very expensive to pay a webmaster to create this and even worse days and weeks of your own precious time if you decide to make it yourself. Plotting tight coordinates for the 130 clickable counties of the United Kingdom and Ireland would take weeks to complete. See this excellent result clickable map of the USA .
Whenever you or your clients need a good quality clickable map of AUSTRIA, EUROPE or ASIA, you can find full downloadable editable photoshop image files complete with html code to simply cut and paste into your webpage. Just to save hours, days weeks of your time. I’ve heard Joomla users have problems displaying image maps on their pages, You can find a solution for that problem too at www.clickablemaps.com I’ve seen an whole article there on the that very subject.
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