A great way for website owners to categorize their articles or posts or any information related to specific areas or states is to have a clickable map on your web site instead of a dull list of links on your page.

With the new JQuery plugin javascript techniques being developed across the net, it is now exciting to use image maps again. For instance the great jquery plugin MapHilight by David Lynch actually hilights areas of coordinates that are plotted in a way that can be easily edited.

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 my demo clickable map of the Portugal. If you dont pay attention to detail the effect is lost and it wont look good. I have plotted perfect coordinates for many county and state maps, to see the effect checkout my latest creation a clickable map of Austria.

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 I have created layered photoshop images with all the state borders traced with the pen tool 1 pixel in black on a white background.

Now there’s no need to create a perfect clickable map from scratch, no need to pay through your nose to a webmaster to do this for you. The fact that it took me days just to plot coordinates for my USA Clickable Map, 50 states in all, tells you that is a lot of precious time that you would rather spend working on something else. See the amazing result of my USA clickable maps with the splendid JQuery hover over effect

If ever you need a clickable map of WALES, IRELAND, GERMANY, FRANCE and ASIA be sure to come to my website and download a clickable map with editable photoshop image and html code and save yourself a mountain of precious time. One last note: Joomla users can experience difficulty adding image maps to their pages, I have a solution at my website and instructions with every clickable map package that I present at my website.