I don’t see the value in such a little map… sure, it’s a “map” but you
can’t see anything that would make it useable. To zoom in to make it usable
takes several clicks and you need to first remove the address popup before
you can see local streets. Then you have to zoom in and out to locate major
traffic connections. Then, there is no option to open the map in Google
Maps where you can get directions and other useful information.
I think this is an example where a user element is restructured to fit the
page design instead of designing to fit the user experience. That’s not to
say your page looks bad, it’s quite attractive - just an example I think of
how fixed print design affects our thinking when it comes to interactive
web experience. You could also have solved this by taking a screen grab of
the google map and superimposing the address bubble over it in your
favorite photo tool, presenting it in the page as a graphic - adding user
functionality by linking it to the google maps location.
–
Ernie Simpson
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Julie Maxwell email@hidden wrote:
IT finally worked after some different configuring…
On Apr 25, 2013, at 3:22 PM, Julie Maxwell email@hidden wrote:
Good afternoon,
I am doing a site that has 4 google maps on it (one on a page)
I realize that I did ask for help before and I had great responses but -
none of them worked.
so I cleared the google maps off of the site - published -uploaded -
clearing the playing field.