Editable Photoshop Maps and Code For Your Website, Blog or Joomla Pages
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.
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 this demo of a clickable county map of Ireland. Failing to make really tight coordinates can produce undesired results…..that’s why It’s best to have perfect clickable map coordinates for counties and states.
OK so we have all the correct coordinates plotted to produce a great hover over effect, so now we need to have a nice map design for the map in question. This is also a tedious job for a webmaster to create and trace county borders…that’s why It’s best to find a layered photoshop images with all the state borders traced with the pen tool 1 pixel in black on a white background.
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
If ever you need a clickable map of PORTUGAL, EUROPE, GERMANY, FRANCE and ASIA there are some great maps to download with editable photoshop images and html code to save yourself a mountain of precious time. One last note: Joomla users can experience difficulty adding image maps to their pages, some of these maps have a solution for this proble… that’s a big relief for Joomla users that have tried and failed to add clickable maps before.
