I had to find an image of North America with all the political lines included but with no labels on each state and providence. I could not find such a thing with both the US and Canada.
I also needed something that did not have a colored background. No problem I thought...
I will use this one. I can always delete the background dark blue from here and have nothing there.
That didn't work!!!
When I selected the background using the "magic wand" in Paint.net (the program I use) it also selected several neighboring areas and when I deleted it, it also deleted the color out of a number of states as well.
I tried another one...
It has a dark background, though lighter than the one above. The important thing about this one is that it does have the shape of the bottom-most part of Canada, which would be all I need to get Canadian Providences on the map. I already had that planned.
Tried it again with deleting the background. Nothing doing! I had to actually remove the entire background by taking the cursor entirely around the perimeter of the map! Imagine all of the bays, inlets, outlets and other landforms that you see in this map! I did it though, and it did take a LOT of time!
Persistence (though perhaps, not in the right place.) I already had thoughts that this could take much longer than I had bargained for. Nonetheless, I'm stubborn and I deleted line of pixels all the way around.
Doing the Great Lakes was a LOT of fun! At this point, I decided I'd only do the bottom half, save time, and exclude Canada.
Getting there... Finishing touches and then handcoding...
You have definitely accomplished what you set out with this motivational lesson.
Brilliant job.
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The site that this is on has been sitting and it's a sister site to one that doesn't belong to me. This is a directory site for alternative medicine practitioners and I have no idea yet how to pull this off.
I do have learning materials.
We have maps to show us where something is that we otherwise would not be able to find. When we start out, we must put faith on maps to get us there because we can't see around the first bend nor past the headlights of our automobile.
I agree with you about maps. In a sense, they are something that we all should be using to guide us through the development of our businesses. Helping us keep on track and keeping us on the right road to success.
It starts with an idea. Then it goes to planning out how this idea can be manifested into reality. From here it's setting goals (I didn't do this here and should have.) Finally it's implementing this thing out until it's there. From here on, it's improving what's there already.
I'm grateful you shared this. Obstacles will eventually cross our paths along this IM journey; your story serves as an inspiration (as you meant it) to push ahead and work our way through.
Thank you so much.
In a perfect world where we start out with a good deal of money, we can just assign the idea or task and have it done, but here we are as you said having to wear many hats until we reach a certain knowledge and experience level.
I like having to learn in the rough as you have shown in your tutorial, knowledge seems to stick better in my brain that way.
Thank you for taking the time to share your journey and the lesson that goes along with it, I appreciate you. :)
This thing is primitive, but it does exactly what I need it to do. Today I will build a prototype page that will come off the map when someone clicks on one of the links. This will ensure there are no problems with adding hyperlinks into the table. I don't expect there will be any problems, but not known until it is attempted.
Since Florida is my home state, I will probably do it to that one first off.
