Languages maps for webs
MAPS FOR WEBS
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/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
..
Localer areas
.1- Continents
Rigth click your mouse in the image above - 'Save as' - Upload it to yourwebsite.com/subdirectory - Paste this coordenates in a yourwebsite.com/subdirectory/index.html
<!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>
Modify the urls - Continents division!
.2- Other
Links
HTML Image cutting
Writer - Insert - Edit - Image Map - Save as - HTML Document
PHP-Python/SQL CMSs Projects
Admin Demos - http://opensourcecms.com
All 'good' CMSs have multilingual features and have its 'Select your Language' in their incorrect Dropdowns + Flags which could be subsituted by Languages Maps.
Place an HTML and/or a 'Select Your Language' option as a Yoursite.com's Center Block.
Hints
-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 images' size + diferent coloured = Map Coats
-..