implementation options for a geography site
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:15 am
Hi,
Just want to know your opinions on my implementation options for a new project: (i think this is the right forum)
It will be a a section of a bigger site that will feature a map of the world. Users can click by contininent to view an enlarged image, and then by country to view another enlarged image(of the country). The client wants a very visually rich site as well as advertising (adsense) and links to external sites (travel agents, hotels etc). Once zoomed into a country information / guides and images about that country are given by an author.
Other functionality includes:
1)search by author - see all the places that a particular author has written about - if possible showing the locations on the map of the world
2)view pictures by world, continent or country - then be able to go to the article the picture is associated with
3)search articles by title or keyword (or author)
4)send links of articles to friends
My thoughts are one of the three:
1)a full flash site (a la google earth) which incorporates all of the above functionality - this is what would please the client more!!!
2)flash based maps (google earth style) with regular html / php / js providing functionality - obviously will link this to flash for control over maps and dynamic map edits (ie placing links on map to indicate articles by an author. Perhaps use frames/iframes
3)No flash - a dynamic page that loads with the appropriate static map - no clickable content will be on te maps
I am leaning towards the full flash site (despite never having worked with flash and php before) because i think this would provide the interactivty that the client wants BUT are there any issues regarding tying flash based content in with adsense style campaigns because we want relevant text ads based on the content of the article as well as other more general ads.
how easy is it to tie in php and flash? ie say if the site was flash based could i provide a link which would direct a user to the correct section of flash content?
submitting artices / logging in / searching etc would require the user to be redirected to regular html pages.
This is probably a bit all over the place but any help / advice would be great
Just want to know your opinions on my implementation options for a new project: (i think this is the right forum)
It will be a a section of a bigger site that will feature a map of the world. Users can click by contininent to view an enlarged image, and then by country to view another enlarged image(of the country). The client wants a very visually rich site as well as advertising (adsense) and links to external sites (travel agents, hotels etc). Once zoomed into a country information / guides and images about that country are given by an author.
Other functionality includes:
1)search by author - see all the places that a particular author has written about - if possible showing the locations on the map of the world
2)view pictures by world, continent or country - then be able to go to the article the picture is associated with
3)search articles by title or keyword (or author)
4)send links of articles to friends
My thoughts are one of the three:
1)a full flash site (a la google earth) which incorporates all of the above functionality - this is what would please the client more!!!
2)flash based maps (google earth style) with regular html / php / js providing functionality - obviously will link this to flash for control over maps and dynamic map edits (ie placing links on map to indicate articles by an author. Perhaps use frames/iframes
3)No flash - a dynamic page that loads with the appropriate static map - no clickable content will be on te maps
I am leaning towards the full flash site (despite never having worked with flash and php before) because i think this would provide the interactivty that the client wants BUT are there any issues regarding tying flash based content in with adsense style campaigns because we want relevant text ads based on the content of the article as well as other more general ads.
how easy is it to tie in php and flash? ie say if the site was flash based could i provide a link which would direct a user to the correct section of flash content?
submitting artices / logging in / searching etc would require the user to be redirected to regular html pages.
This is probably a bit all over the place but any help / advice would be great