I want to make an awesome web resource, but have hit a wall on the technical side of it and need to know what to ask for. I want to make an image with a slider that reveals and hides different triggerable pop-ups depending on where you move the slider. I asked this question over a year ago, didn't get the answer I wanted, but am still obsessing about it and am slowly becoming a crazy person.
There are two requirements: it can't be flash and it can't be google (or hosted or dependent on any external service or company).
The image itself will be a map, but when I talk to people about it they keep getting tripped up on this like I want to be able to zoom in and manipulate the map. I don't. I want a single static image that has an interactive slider that shows and reveals different triggerable icons/buttons/whatever, that reveal boxes of text/images/embedded videos/links/etc.
So far, I've gotten suggestions for things like simile and the like, but nothing I've seen looks remotely close to it. A few people I've talked to have suggested an amalgamation of jquery, mysql, and javascript or php, but nothing concrete as to what specifically to look for or, subsequently, how exactly it would be put together.
Currently, I have a jquery slider floating in space unattached to anything. Everything suggests that something like this could exist, but no one has made it yet. I'm bright enough that I can put some of it together but not smart enough to make it out of whole cloth (I can handle css and html, not writing javascript, php, or processing, though I could probably tinker).
Lastly, it's going to have a lot of data points and it'll be a living resource that will be updated over time.
HELP!
There are two requirements: it can't be flash and it can't be google (or hosted or dependent on any external service or company).
The image itself will be a map, but when I talk to people about it they keep getting tripped up on this like I want to be able to zoom in and manipulate the map. I don't. I want a single static image that has an interactive slider that shows and reveals different triggerable icons/buttons/whatever, that reveal boxes of text/images/embedded videos/links/etc.
So far, I've gotten suggestions for things like simile and the like, but nothing I've seen looks remotely close to it. A few people I've talked to have suggested an amalgamation of jquery, mysql, and javascript or php, but nothing concrete as to what specifically to look for or, subsequently, how exactly it would be put together.
Currently, I have a jquery slider floating in space unattached to anything. Everything suggests that something like this could exist, but no one has made it yet. I'm bright enough that I can put some of it together but not smart enough to make it out of whole cloth (I can handle css and html, not writing javascript, php, or processing, though I could probably tinker).
Lastly, it's going to have a lot of data points and it'll be a living resource that will be updated over time.
HELP!