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.
I’ve seen some great examples using JQuery plugin MapHilight to create excellent hover over effects for 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.
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.
I don’t think there’s really a need to go through the pain of spending hours, days, even weeks making website maps, when you can find ready made clickable maps at about 600 pixels width if you look hard enough like this clickable map of the USA and all the state maps too
Whenever you or your clients need a good quality clickable map of ITALY, 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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