There are plenty of directions available on how to embed a Guest Map in your page. But I didn’t really like how it looked in the iWeb page. So, I decided to make a pop-up window that would activate when clicking “Guest Map” in the navigation bar at the top of the page. This is similar to the way that I edited the nav bar for the webcam discussed above.
Here’s the easy part:
First, sign up for a Guest Map at http://mapservices.locaweb.com.br
Next, configure your Guest Map to the size and look you prefer. When you have updated your settings, click on “Usage Tips” in the upper right hand corner.
In the code window for adding a popup, copy everything starting with “href” all the way until the last quotation mark.
Don’t copy the
< a
or the ending
> MyGuestmap </ a>
Now, the trickier part.
Make a page in iWeb called “Guest Map” and include it in the Navigation bar. It can be a blank page, or you can write something on there like, “If you see this page, I am in the process of updating my site.”
Now create two Find/Replace entries in MassReplaceIt.
The first one should find
href=” Guest Map.html ”
(remove the spaces beside the quotation marks - I had to put them there to prevent my MassReplaceIt script from replacing this code!)
and replace it with the text you copied earlier from the Guestmap site.
The second one should find
href=” ../Guest Map.html ”
(remove the spaces beside the quotation marks - I had to put them there to prevent my MassReplaceIt script from replacing this code!)
and replace it with the same text from earlier. (This second find/replace is needed because blog and podcast pages exist within nested folders. If you don’t have a blog or podcast on your site, you only need the first find/replace command.)
Run MassReplaceIt and you should now have a link to a popup map in your Navigation bar!
Remember, if you make a change to a page like this post-publishing, and later re-publish, you have to make the html changes again! Set up a Find/Replace command in MassReplaceIt and you can do this very quickly.
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