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
..
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
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">
<HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <TITLE></TITLE> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Win32)"> <META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20060101;1530603"> <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20060101;2041948"> <STYLE> </STYLE>
</HEAD> <BODY LANG="ca-ES" DIR="LTR">
<MAP NAME="MAP1"><AREA SHAPE=POLY COORDS="590,296,519,338,575,356,611,309,590,296" HREF="http://newzealand.yoursite.com/" TARGET="_self" ALT="New zealand"><AREA SHAPE=POLY COORDS="537,220,491,251,491,309,563,309,611,269,575,220,577,220,537,220" HREF="http://australia.yoursite.com/" TARGET="_self" ALT="Australia"><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">
</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
-..