The coolest ideas usually come from other sources. Today someone asked me what I would charge for a mod like this. I quoted them a price and then thought about it and decided to release it as a mod for paid members.
It’s an image map for your categories, and as far as I know, no one’s ever done anything like this before.
We start with an image and do lots of fun stuff with image mapping software, then we add our categories and a simple change in index.html and blam! You’ve got a nice map instead of plain boring text.
To be honest, the way it’s done you will only be able to use your site for United States based sites, but of course you’re welcome to imagemap anything you want and use this idea.
You must also use the database of categories I have created because the image map is hard coded for the categories. You must also have mod_rewrite enabled and the mod_rewrite settings must be set at default.
Price: $20.00
thats really nice im going to use this on a skiresort site im making. What rights do you have to the image? (where does it come from) I have one for the UK i used to use on my website, but i used a stock site so i cant give it away.
If I remember right this one was from a free stock site. There really are some useful graphics out there.
Other places to look are government agencies that allow the use of maps. In Canada there are a lot of places that you can get and use maps for local areas as well as cities for no cost.
inspireme why not try http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/outlinemaps/
Free to use maps, this mod would be great for the uk