how to go about this

hargi · 21 Aug 2007 at 11:14

need to make a small website type thing. But dont know what i should use to do it.
I need a site where the user can click a button and then the map.jpg moves in the window to a certain location, a bit like how google map works.
Was going to do it in flash but not all the computers here have flash player by default so was thinking against that.
TIA

Sirrel Squirrel · 21 Aug 2007 at 11:47

You could just use Google Maps, have a read up on their API and sign up for a key, you can then add it to your site and have a play about with it.

http://www.google.com/apis/maps/

furnace · 21 Aug 2007 at 12:44

I get the feeling that map.jpg is a map of a building or something, rather than a street map..?

Really your choices are javascript, flash or a java applet. (would recommend javascript if you can get it going, flash for "easiness", but I don't like java applets so wouldn't recommend that).

Boov · 21 Aug 2007 at 18:38

http://demos.mootools.net/Fx.Scroll

davetherave2 · 21 Aug 2007 at 20:25

another alternative is live maps as well. I personally prefer live maps as I found it far easier to manipulate than google maps.

Although have to say that demo site in the post above is pretty cool.

hargi · 22 Aug 2007 at 09:06

yeah its a building map,
i ll have a look at java script, like you say flash would have been easiest but the computers not having it installed by default here would make it more of a pain.
thanks

Sirrel Squirrel · 23 Aug 2007 at 01:43

Boov said:
http://demos.mootools.net/Fx.Scroll

ooo that's cool