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

I’ve seen some great examples using JQuery plugin MapHilight to create excellent hover over effects for county and state maps of the world. It has revitalized interest in using such a technique to present clickable maps at your website or blog.

Admittedly to create a great hover over effect requires attention to detail as far as plotting coordinates goes but it’s worth the effort as you can see in this demo of a a title=clickable county map of ireland href=http://www.clickablemaps.com/clickable-map-of-ireland-counties/clickable county map of Ireland/a. Failing to make really tight coordinates can produce undesired results…..that’s why It’s best to have perfect clickable map coordinates for counties and states.

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 It’s best to find a layered photoshop images with all the state borders traced with the pen tool 1 pixel in black on a white background.

There you have we have it ready made clickable maps for your website or blog, usually at 600 pixels width perfect for most web pages. The whole process of making a clickable map like this from scratch is very time consuming and can be very expensive to pay a webmaster to create this and even worse days and weeks of your own precious time if you decide to make it yourself. Plotting tight coordinates for the 130 a title=clickable county map of the UK and Ireland href=http://www.clickablemaps.com/clickable-county-map-of-uk-and-ireland/clickable counties of the United Kingdom and Ireland/a would take weeks to complete. See this excellent result clickable map of the USA .

If ever you need a a title=clickable map of portugal href=http://www.clickablemaps.com/clickable-map-of-portugal-regions/clickable map of PORTUGAL,/a EUROPE, GERMANY, FRANCE and ASIA there are some great maps to download with editable photoshop images and html code to save yourself a mountain of precious time. One last note: Joomla users can experience difficulty adding image maps to their pages, some of these maps have a solution for this proble… that’s a big relief for Joomla users that have tried and failed to add clickable maps before.