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.
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 my demo clickable map of the Germany. If you dont pay attention to detail the effect is lost and it wont look good. I have plotted perfect coordinates for many county and state maps, to see the effect checkout my latest creation a clickable map of France.
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.
There you have it a ready made kit for making amazing 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 counties of the United Kingdom and Ireland clickable map took me two weeks to complete. See the splendid result at my website www.clickable maps.com.
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.
