I’ve been putting together a restaurant website for someone as a favor (I’m not a web designer), and I wanted to put together a map/directions page. Using Freeway Pro, I’ve approached this two ways, each with problems
I’ve generated the map in Google Maps, then used the “Link to this Page” option, and the placed the resultant “Paste HTML to embed in website” into a “Markup Item…” in Freeway. The problem there is that getting it to fit nicely in relation to other page elements seems to be more a result of experimentation than anything else. If it looks to be aligned under the page headings, it’s offset when published and uploaded (and preview isn’t quite accurate). It might be that the default placeholder box simply isn’t the same size as the Google generated map.
using the Google Maps Action yields a nice-looking map, but no Directions option–at least, none that would be simple and obvious to visitors. Technique #1 yields a marker with a “Get directions: To here…” popup, but the Action method doesn’t.
Is there a way to either ensure that the Markup… insertion conforms to the layout, or a way to get a Directions option in the Action map?
I have a simpler suggestion for you. Since you have the Google map saved as a graphic already, just make it part of the directions page. Draw a graphic object the appropriate size on the directions page then put the map in it. You can add text description above or below it in a regular html text box. If you don’t want the map to be visible at first, put it out of sight lower down on the page and use an anchor tag and link to jump to it.
It wasn’t saved as a graphic, it was taken as a link back to Google maps, creating a map that’s both dynamically generated and interactive–but shown on my site page, not a redirect to Google (nor is it just a graphic).
On 27 Apr. 2008, 8:54 pm, Scott wrote:
I’ve generated the map in Google Maps, then used the “Link to this Page” option, and the placed the resultant “Paste HTML to embed in website” into a “Markup Item…” in Freeway. The problem there is that getting it to fit nicely in relation to other page elements seems to be more a result of experimentation than anything else. If it looks to be aligned under the page headings, it’s offset when published and uploaded (and preview isn’t quite accurate). It might be that the default placeholder box simply isn’t the same size as the Google generated map.
when you generated the map in Google maps I presume you clicked on 'Link to this page" > did you then just copy the code as generated and paste it into a markup item or did you click on the ‘Customise and preview embedded map option’ ?
if you really want a map that will fit a div on your Freeway page you need to tweak it further _ I will explain how I did it if you like or if you give me the size of the box (div) on your Freeway page where you want to put the map and give me the zip or postcode of the business I’ll do it for you
Is there more to it than looking to see the x/y dimensions of the Google Map (contained within the HTML provided by Google) and resizing the HTML Markup box to match?
I’ve done that, and even then it’s a little off. It fits perfectly in Page view, is totally off in Preview (which shows the top/left of the Google Maps page rather than the map itself). The published page is basically OK, but still shifted off–where the right side of the map had been centered under and fit well within the elements above it in Page view, it now extended past them.