Editor's review
iMapBuilder is an easy-to-use, powerful, WYSIWYG Flash map building tool for non-technical users. It is an all-in-one software that creates professional maps in Flash quickly and easily without any programming skills or additional software.
Pros: iMapBuilder is an easy-to-use, powerful, WYSIWYG Flash map building tool. This is a all in one tool to create interactive maps. This tool helps create maps in Flash that look professional. It has map templates to start building on. There’s no need to have programming skills or knowledge about Flash or even any other additional software. iMapbuilder is designed for non-technical users, webmasters, or anyone else who want to build professional Flash maps yet has no time to learn Flash, programming or additional software. Created map can be easily placed on a website, in a CD or as an stand alone application. It is compatible with most major browsers that has an Adobe flash player plug-in installed. It is easy to embed the map into a existing HTML page/layout, you can also use Frontpage, Dreamweaver or any HTML editor to insert the map manually.
User interaction panel is simple enough. Has a preview area. The map selection pop up comes up first. Pre-loaded template maps of US, Europe, Canada, UK and the world are available. The selection interface also shows a preview template. HTML settings tab lets you set page title, meta description, meta keywords and background color. On the preview tab top half is the map as is being created, lower half contain settings. This is tabbed again. Map options and country/state settings are the tabs available. Map options include the title text, horizontal and vertical alignments, opacity, background color and an image if an image is to be used.
Cons: Nothing problematic here.
Overall: Though targeted to a specific narrow purpose the application has the right set of features and is easy to use. A good 3 star is certainly well deserved.
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