Hi Mike, I love your map - nice illustration, etc!
You may be interested... this is a very similar to a thing I did probably a year ago now. It is a map to a tree park: http://www.eastwoodhill.org.nz/walks/map.aspx You hover over areas then click into them to see details about that area. Originally the idea was to use images inside the hover boxes - like you have - but currently not each section has a suitable image. Unfortunately also this part of the site had budget and time constraints that we had to meet; as well as being rather restricted in the graphics that we could use (it had to look like the hard copy map), so I still feel like there is work to do here. In terms of usability, I think people tend to struggle with the idea of clicking into a map. The child pages of the map get very few hits compared to the map page itself. However this could be more to do with the setting of this particular map than the idea of a clickable map? No budget at this stage for usability testing and reviews... although I am hoping for this in the near future. Anyway it is fairly similar to what you have done, in a 'real life' situation. I used Stu Nichols' CSS image maps for inspiration. Cheers, Rachel -----Original Message----- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 2:35 p.m. To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Testing "CSS: Map Pop" Pardon me while I choke! That is beautiful. I about fell out of my chair................then discovered the actual map page! Sigh, to be so talented is really a blessing you know. I admire it greatly. You too of course. Sharron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike at Green-Beast.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:11 AM Subject: [WSG] Testing "CSS: Map Pop" > Hey gang, > > I just produced my second June experiment on my playground site and was > hoping I could get some UAs on it so I may know what it breaks in and > possibly address if needed. I have tested in IE 6 & 7, recent FF, OP, NS, > Flock, and AOL. A friend test it on the latest Safari for Mac. It's pretty > much pixel perfect in all these. > > You guys may like this. I think it has about 1001 one uses and I made sure > it was pretty semantic and accessible. Your comments and suggestions, of > course, are appreciated. > > Here is the write-up: http://mikecherim.com/gbcms_xml/news_page.php?id=7 > Here is the experiment: > http://mikecherim.com/experiments/css_map_pop.php > > If you like this and want to use it, go for it. The mark-up and CSS are > linked from the experiment page as text files. > > Thanks. > > Sincerely, > Mike Cherim > http://green-beast.com/ > http://accessites.org/ > http://graybit.com/ > > > > > > > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.0.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.0/368 - Release Date: 6/16/2006 > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
