Languages maps for webs

SELECT YOUR WEBSITE'S LANGUAGE

World
''To use a world map for changing yoursite.com's language at any of yourwebsite.com's pages doesn't look that navigatable because the image has to be big enough to match the coordinates of each of yoursite.com's languages and some of them could have 'too' small area coordenates in a world view. It could be used comfortably, as a yoursite.com/index.html (ex: at http://wikipedia.org ) '' .1- Representation:

.1- Eckert

http://exchangeyou.com/europe/eckert.JPG

.2- Peters

.3- ..

.2- View:

.1- Physical

.2- Demographic

.3- Political

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Local
..here is where you should include your 'local' select your language map, maybe we could make a categorie for any (spoken) language

.1- ..

Links
Languages' areas coordenates

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_%28language%29

HTML Image cutting

http://openoffice.org/ :

Writer - Insert - Edit - Image Map - Save as - HTML Document

PHP-Python/SQL CMSs Projects

http://opensourcecms.com - Administrator Demos

''All 'good' CMSs have multilingual features and have its 'Select your Language' in their dropdowns + Flags representing them, which could be subsituted by Languages territory Maps.

Hints
World Continents' Division -Save the Eckert.JPG(above) image - Upload it to yourwebsite.com/subdirectory - Paste these coordenates in a yourwebsite.com/subdirectory/index.html - Modify the urls

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">         

  <AREA SHAPE=POLY COORDS="250,99,355,95,355,154,412,192,388,310,253,291,251,291,248,291,250,99" HREF="http://africa.yoursite.com/" TARGET="_self" ALT="Africa"><AREA SHAPE=POLY COORDS="595,15,601,218,465,220,365,148,355,16,595,15" HREF="http://asia.yoursite.com/" TARGET="_self" ALT="Asia"><AREA SHAPE=POLY COORDS="353,20,355,95,271,94,271,16,353,20" HREF="http://europe.exchangeyou.com/" TARGET="_self" ALT="Europe"><AREA SHAPE=POLY COORDS="43,108,232,164,217,330,64,328,43,108" HREF="http://southamerica.yoursite.com/" TARGET="_self" ALT="Southamerica"><AREA SHAPE=POLY COORDS="270,18,127,128,59,108,69,66,15,49,18,16,271,18,270,18" HREF="http://northamerica.yoursite.com/" TARGET="_self" ALT="Northamerica"></MAP><IMG SRC="http://yoursite.com/subdirectoryfortheaboveimage/eckert.JPG" NAME="graphics1" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=642 HEIGHT=374 BORDER=0 USEMAP="#MAP1"> </P> </BODY> </HTML>

-Placing the mouse in an area where there are 2 oficial languages, it should show you to select language1 or language2 in a 'sort of' pop up.

-The sea can be used as a menu place, english language redirect, for esperanto, for ..

-Same image coordinates + same image's size + diferently coloured = Map Coats

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