Saturday, April 9, 2011

Cool stuff to add to your website

I'm going to dedicate this blog to all the cool, neat, clever, handy stuff that you can put on your website to make it look better and be easier to use. This won't be just about all the random stuff that some people might suggest you put on your site like those stupid shout boxes and stock tickers.

My aim is to only pick things that businesses would use on their website and I will try to make sure we have used it on one of our clients websites as well. You can find out more about our web design company at www.jezweb.com.au - its possible that if i have referred to someone on a website we have built that it could change in the future, i'll try and remember to update a post if that happens.

Let's start off with possibly one of the most popular website addons, the google map, we use this pretty often, even on our own site, http://www.newcastleinfotech.com.au/contact/


There is a similar setup available for the msn maps based on whereis, but i really don't think its as good or user friendly as the google maps one.

Here's an example of the msn one. http://www.spearandfish.com.au/contact-us/


All the code and api stuff for google maps is here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html

We often use a plugin in wordpress or just use the standard embed you can get when looking at the map.

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