Create A Clickable Map To Display Your Own Location

To create your own clickable Flash map you will need some initial software to work with. This software is known as Interactive Map Builder and is available from many different retailers across the web. You can use your interactive map maker to create customizable interactive maps for web usage or for offline presentation usage.

Easy to use iMapBuilder:

Most of map builders come with a range of inbuilt templates but you can also import your own specific map area if it isn't available within their inbuilt template gallery. Map building is extremely easy within most map builders; you need no prior knowledge of interactive maps and no Flash programming experience. Here provides a simple step by step guide to creating your own basic map via a basic map building software program.

Open your map building via your operating system desktop or taskbar.

Click the "Create/New Map" button to create a new map.

Click "import a custom map image" to import your custom clickable map image or one of the many template maps within the software program.

In the Map Options tab you can set your map title e.g. Mary's Work Map. You can also change your background color, layout style and map size. If you tick the "Zooming Function/Zoom option" box you will be able to zoom in and out your map and navigate around it.

Click the Map Options tab and enter the desired width/height of your map.

You can now add the customizable, clickable features you desire if you follow the next tutorial steps.

How to define and add you own customizable clickable area:

In the Points & Lines Tab (generally accessible via the INSERT tab in your map builder) select the shape of the area you would like to be clickable.

Within the points and lines editing window you can draw your shape within the region you desire.

Once you've drawn your area you can click within it and APPLY or SAVE so it becomes a fully functioning element of your map.

Once you have applied this particularly map area you can add text boxes, location information or whatever else you would like to it.

There are many various customizable options within map building software. You can choose to add innovative info boxes or tooltips, both of these add an extra dimension to your map.

Embeding map in websites:

To embed your map in your website you will need to publish it first. To publish you map you will need to click the publish button the toolbar. Select an appropriate location to save your published map and then you can move on to the embedding process. In the publishing screen you can find the HTML embed code which you will need to add your map to your website. Prepare your webpage as you always would using your HTML web editor and paste the HTML embed code from the publishing screen. You can then follow your normal steps for uploading your locally built webpage to your site online. This may vary slightly depending on the map building software you use but it is guaranteed your HTML embed code will be accessible through your software program.

To build up your own personalized clickable map is more than achievable regardless of your design experience and with the right software you can create as many maps as you'd like.

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