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LUGWORLD map pages 1st try at some pages.
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OK based on some of the descusion today I gave a try at some pages tonight and
here is what I've got.

Basically this is a single thread of pages as it stands from a world map down
to the regional US LUGs.

Things I included from todays discussion.

1.  Redefined some regions as suggested.

2.  Starting with a higher "World View".

3.  Created image maps for each of the Maps so the maps themselves are
clickable.  (Note: I have only set this up for the current links).  Also with
the Maps it seems Netscape and IE are not real consistant and both behave flaky
at times (I know a hugh supprise).  It is nothing serious it just seems like my
"alt text" does not appear consistantly although it does appear on occasion.
The other thing I didn't like was that the outline of my image map appears when
you click on it in IE, Netscape does not which is what I prefer.

4.  Added links to appropriate LUGNET Newsgroups and to the LUGs themselves
where appropriate.


Things I have not included yet.

1.  Black dots to signify member concentrations and general meeting places.
This seems to be something many of you would like so I will probably include it
soon even though I still have reservations about it.

2.  Image Layering.  I found my software does support it with .jpg's but not
.gif's (Is that standard?).  One problem is that .jpg's seem to have a haze to
them especially when I try to save my .gif's as .jpg's.  Anyway I think in time
I can get this to work I just didn't have enough time to fiddle with it
tonight.


http://www.nelug.org/lugworld/


Some potential problems I might run into are.

1.  I don't think I have maps for all the regions down to the same detail.  I
don't even have a good Canadian map with province breakdowns (damn American map
company).  I know I have seen plenty of Canadian provice maps in standard
freeware clipart programs though so I am sure I will find one.  I guess I am
just saying it may be a little work to hunt down appropriate maps of some
regions.


If this goes forward I should be able to update this about once a week as
needed.  The initial effort will be more to get as complete and as detail a
grouping of maps as possible.


Anyway I am planning on putting some NELUG site changes live either tomorrow or
Wednesday depending on how things go.  When I have some free time I will keep
working on this project.  Other than getting more maps I have a lot I want to
do to spruce things up so expect a lot of changes in the next few weeks as I
further refine the Maps and the Layout.


Eric Kingsley

Check out the baby at:
http://www.thekingsleys.net/

The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/

View My Creations at:
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/



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