Instead of hyperlinked the image to single destination, you can hyperlink areas of the image to various destinations. There are many ways to allows different areas of the main image to be click-able by users. These click-able areas then link to different destinations that usually relate to the part of the image the user has clicked on. Image maps are very useful for all kinds of navigation reasons like schematics, floor plans, city, county, and country maps or even photo-tagging feature.
Interesting and useful extensions for Joomla
As they say, the strength of each CMS is in the community and a large number of extensions that you can use in your web projects.
Test the new design of YouTube
In constant search of a better interface, Google has a habit of applying the changes that it considers most relevant in their services… and we really appreciate. They did so most recently in their services, with major changes in Gmail, Docs, Reader, and even search engine. One service that seemed to have been forgotten was YouTube… or was it not?
Tip of the day: Two or more modules in one
If your job consists mainly of improving and enhancing people’s websites – sooner or later you need to add a new module position, or simply add a new module (or even modules) in one of the available localisation. Unfortunately, as experience teaches, do not always have time to rummage around in the template code or template framework of where & how you can add a new module position.
Fullscreen background slideshow module in Joomla 1.7
Certainly there are many ways to dynamically change the page background. Although current trends in webdesign suggest the use of small amounts of special effects, however, sometimes use a simple slideshow in the background, you can beautify the look of the website.
Useful websites for every webmaster
While simply finding a website is easy to find interesting if online tools is more difficult hence the idea that at some time suggest interesting solutions.
Overview of Internet news
Last week there were a few interesting news about where it should be mentioned in the topic of tools supporting the process of building websites.
End of the free and unlimited API for Google Maps, time for limits and price list
A few weeks ago Google announced that Google Translate API translator will be paid. But it is not the end of changes. Now, the company switched restrictions on the interface – Google Maps API.
Free Online Photo Editing
In recent years more and more Internet users resign from full-size desktop programs, replacing them with network applications. They obviously do not offer as many features as tools such as Photoshop or GIMP. But when we are only available to the browser, they can be quite a decent alternative for those programs, especially that they are free.
Google turns on SSL encryption for search engine
Google is rolling out over the next weeks default encryption using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) on searches for users signing in with their accounts. Over the past few years, Google is slowly but consistently moved its services under the cover of an encrypted SSL. Encrypted search is a long time available at https://encrypted.google.com/, and over the next few weeks will be the default encryption for all users logged on to Google account.