Want A Great Image Map Effect For Your Website?
Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | Great Sites
If you ever decide to replace your boring directory links for an amazing clickable map to present your web site information for counties or states of your country, look no further, I have the perfect solution.
I use the brilliant JQuery plugin MapHilight to create excellent hover over effects for my county and state maps of the world. It has revitalized interest in using such a technique to present clickable maps at your website or blog.
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
Whenever you or your clients need a good quality clickable map of USA, EUROPE or ASA, I provide full downloadable editable photoshop image files complete with html code to simply cut and paste into your webpage. Save hours, days weeks of your time. Joomla users who have problems displaying image maps on their pages, I have a solution for that problem too. See me at my website www.clickablemaps.com. Clickable maps for webmasters.